Kyune, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Springville-Mapleton census division. It stands on Kyune Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kyune quadrangle. It stands 7,087 feet above sea level.

Kyune within Utah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1886 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1896 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Kyune quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Price quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1996 USGS Kyune quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Kyune between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,304 acres in total. 14 started naturally. None 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
Natural	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
17 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Moab Field Office	TRAIN 1
17 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TRAIN 3
13 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	SULPHER
12 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PICNIC FIRE
10 September 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	Moab Field Office	MYSTERY
7 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	FORD
26 August 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Moab Field Office	CRANDALL CANYON
24 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PRIE REC

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Kyune: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Beaver Creek Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Limestone
Ut Dep of Hwys No 25101	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #25103	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #25104	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit 25104	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit. 25103	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Utah 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Colton	4.0 miles	21
Gilluly	13.7 miles	20
Tucker (historical)	15.4 miles	20
Sky View (historical)	16.7 miles	20
Mill Fork	21.5 miles	16
Rio	28.1 miles	17
Three Forks	28.1 miles	22
West Portal	28.2 miles	22

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 Kyune	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q61886684	The 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 1442370. 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.