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Juab, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Nephi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84639. The Survey maps it on the Juab quadrangle. It stands 5,082 feet above sea level.

Juab within Juab County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Eureka Post Office, 205 Main, southeast corner of Main & Wallace Alley, Eureka, Juab County, UT
Eureka Post Office, 205 Main, southeast corner of Main & Wallace Alley, Eureka, Juab County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Bullion Beck & Champion Mine, Headframe, Tintic Mining District, Eureka, Juab County, UT
Bullion Beck & Champion Mine, Headframe, Tintic Mining District, Eureka, Juab County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

107 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Juab between 1994 and 2020, burning about 25,697 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Equipment and vehicle use11
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCEDAR POCKET
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeKILO
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPAINTER FIRE
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDEEP CANYON
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeDEEP CANYON
4 September 2007Natural654 acresRichfield Field OfficeHARPER
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsAGARD FIRE
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeSTATE 54

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juab County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Juab: 14 past producers, 4 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerSedimentary
Unknown QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Skinners Peak Borrow Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12013Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12026Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12027Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12028Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12029Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept. of Hwys Borrow Pit No. 12014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept of Hwys 12025Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Juab County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Juab in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Thunderstorm WindJuab-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juab County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Levan5.0 miles20
Mills5.3 miles16
Sharp7.7 miles19
Parley11.1 miles15
Soma12.6 miles15
Uisco14.1 miles15
Nephi14.3 miles21
Gypsum Mill15.2 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on JuabAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657886The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437599. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.