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Lake Point Junction, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Tooele-Grantsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84074. It lies near Black Rock Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Farnsworth Peak quadrangle.

Lake Point Junction within Tooele County

On record in Lake Point Junction

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 18 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Lake Point Junction between 1995 and 2020, burning about 4,166 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined40
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHARDY
9 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands102 W I-80
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.6 acresNorthwest AreaPHEASANT
5 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTHE RAILROAD
3 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2,117 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeGREEN RAVINE
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeQUINTON
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBROKEN ARROW
18 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHEVRON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Lake Point Junction: 14 past producers, 5 producers, 3 plants. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, Iron. 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
(Facility) Garfield Copper RefineryCopper, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
(Facility) Garfield Copper SmelterCopper, Silver, GoldPlant
Lake Point MineCopper, Lead, Silver, Iron, ArsenicPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Limonite, Pyrite, Realgar
Lake Point PlantHaliteProducerHalite
Salt Lake Sodium Products Co.SodiumPast Producer
Black Rock Canyon QuarryCopper, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Realgar
Farnsworth Peak BrinesBromineProducer1825, 1981
Garfield Phosphate PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Garfield Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1954
Lake Point QuarryCopper, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Realgar

Every working recorded in Tooele 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
Lago2.2 miles16
Lake Point3.5 miles16
Mills Junction5.8 miles16
Stansbury park7.0 miles16
Erda8.7 miles17
Lincoln11.0 miles17
Marshall12.2 miles15
Burmester12.2 miles15

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 Q122543386The 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 1437611. 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.