La Sal Junction, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Monticello census division. The Survey maps it on the La Sal Junction quadrangle.

La Sal Junction within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1885 USGS La Sal quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1954 USGS La Sal Junction quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Mt Peale 2 SW quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS La Sal quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS La Sal Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of La Sal Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 54 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	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1

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
3 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	FLAT IRON
24 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	RATTLE SNAKE RIDGE
17 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	LACKEY
14 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Moab Field Office	HWY 191 MM102
13 September 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.7 acres	Moab Field Office	BLACK RIDGE
11 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	RESORT
9 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	AREA 99
9 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Moab Field Office	ICECREAM T

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of La Sal Junction: 25 past producers, 9 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Uranium, Manganese. 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
Chert Collecting Locality	Quartz	Occurrence	Chalcedony
Chert Collecting Locality	Semiprecious Gemstone	Past Producer
Mc Gee Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Carnotite, Mica
Muleshoe Wash Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Past Producer	Pyrolusite
Muleshoe Wash Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Past Producer
Blue Bird - S&U	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer
Rattlesnake Mine	Vanadium, Uranium	Occurrence
Rattlesnake Mine	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer	1954
Sunnyside Mine	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer	Carnotite, Mica
Unknown	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
La Sal	8.3 miles	29
Spanish Valley	12.9 miles	26
Old La Sal	13.6 miles	29
Monticello	30.5 miles	20
Ucolo	35.9 miles	21
Verdure	36.3 miles	20
Eastland	37.8 miles	21
Indian Village	46.1 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437608. 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.