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Lapoint, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84039. The Survey maps it on the Lapoint quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,568 feet above sea level.

Lapoint within Uintah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

80 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Lapoint between 1994 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Fireworks7
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMILE POST 22
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSIREECH
2 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreVernal Field OfficeDRIVELINE
14 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined36 acresNortheast AreaWELDER
12 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHAIN LINK
12 September 1994Naturalunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyDEEP CREEK
11 September 2000Smokingunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyCHRISTENSE
10 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLITTLE STORE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Uintah County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lapoint in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013HailLapoint-no account filed
August 2002HailLapoint-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Uintah 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
Tridell4.5 miles17
Leeton6.8 miles16
Gusher7.2 miles16
Bennett7.8 miles17
Whiterocks8.5 miles16
Fort Duchesne8.6 miles16
Hayden9.7 miles16
Ballard11.2 miles17

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 LapointAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6488298The 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 1429476. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.