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Lake Point, Utah

16 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 Rogers Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mills Junction quadrangle. It stands 4,249 feet above sea level.

Lake Point within Tooele County

On record in Lake Point

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

123 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Lake Point between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,273 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined69
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeTRAIN
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
29 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeBIG CNY 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Lake Point: 13 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Bromine. 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
Bates Canyon MineLead, Zinc, Copper, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Lake Point MineCopper, Lead, Silver, Iron, ArsenicPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Limonite, Pyrite, Realgar
Lake Point PlantHaliteProducerHalite
Silver Sands PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Black Rock Canyon QuarryCopper, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Realgar
Farnsworth Peak BrinesBromineProducer1825, 1981
Lake Point QuarryCopper, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Realgar
Mills Junction Section of Great Salt LakeBromineProducer
Mills Junction Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Mills Junction Gravel Pit No 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Lago1.7 miles16
Mills Junction2.3 miles16
Stansbury park3.4 miles16
Lake Point Junction3.5 miles18
Erda5.2 miles17
Lincoln8.0 miles17
Marshall8.8 miles15
Burmester10.1 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.

Wikipedia article on Lake PointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711766The 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 1429437. 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.