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Kimball Junction, Utah

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Park City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84098. It stands on Kimball Creek. The Survey maps it on the Park City West quadrangle.

Kimball Junction within Summit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 26 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.

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Kimball Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use25
Recreation and ceremony14
Debris and open burning14
Natural11
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLD RANCH
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJEREMY I80
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRANCH MORNING
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSACKET
30 September 2000Fireworks25 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsABILITY CENTER FIRE
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTAR VIEW
16 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands40-4
13 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use8.3 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSLIVER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Kimball Junction: 22 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Round Valley South ProspectManganese, IronOccurrenceHematite, Limonite, Pyrolusite
Round Valley South ProspectIron, ManganesePast Producer
Spiro TunnelLead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer1889
Spiro TunnelGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Park City Cemetery ProspectsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Round Valley Ne QuarriesStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionProducer
Round Valley Ne QuarriesStone, Dimension, StoneProducer
Unknown ProspectsStonePast Producer
Unknown QuarriesStonePast Producer
Gravel Pit In Twn 2s Rng 3e Sec 13Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Silver Springs1.5 miles26
Jeremy Ranch2.0 miles23
Snyderville2.3 miles26
Gogorza2.3 miles23
Silver Creek Junction2.5 miles26
East Basin2.9 miles26
Atkinson3.8 miles26
Summit Park3.8 miles26

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 Kimball JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122540078The 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 1442320. 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.