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Knudsens Corner, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84121. It lies near Tolcats Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sugar House quadrangle.

Knudsens Corner within Salt Lake County

On record in Knudsens Corner

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Knudsens Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 726 acres in total. 24 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
Natural24
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2005Natural10 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestNORTH DEAF
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGUSON
3 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGUSON
22 September 2020Natural60 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestNEFFS
22 September 2005Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestNEFFS WFU
19 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMULE HOLLOW
16 September 2016Natural1.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestHOUNDSTOOTH
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGESON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of Knudsens Corner: 32 producers, 23 past producers, 15 occurrences. 32 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. 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
All Minerals MillBarium-BariteProducer
Blue Jay ProspectCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Canyon Rim QuarriesLimestone, General, Clay, Cement RockPast ProducerCalcite
Cottonwood Gold Eagle MineSilver, IronPast Producer1925
Last Dollar MineLeadOccurrenceCalcite, Galena
Lower Bells Canyon WorkingsCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Mortand Cement Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Murray Copper and Victor ClaimsCopper, Gold, LeadOccurrence1912
Murry Refractories PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
New State MineSilver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Salt Lake 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
Cottonwood Heights1.3 miles25
Cottonwood (historical)1.8 miles25
Holladay2.2 miles25
Little Cottonwood Creek Valley2.5 miles25
Union3.4 miles25
Mount Olympus3.5 miles25
Dalton4.1 miles25
East Millcreek4.3 miles25

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.

Wikidata item Q122549541The 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 1442352. 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.