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Little Cottonwood Creek Valley, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84093. It lies near Flatiron Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Draper quadrangle. 7,221 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 4,623 feet above sea level.

Little Cottonwood Creek Valley within Salt Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Little Cottonwood Creek Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 864 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2005Natural10 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestNORTH DEAF
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGUSON
3 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGUSON
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTONYA
19 September 2007Debris and open burning13 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBELLS RESERVOIR
19 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMULE HOLLOW
16 September 2016Natural1.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestHOUNDSTOOTH
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGESON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Little Cottonwood Creek Valley: 34 producers, 25 past producers, 16 occurrences. 34 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. 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
Blue Jay ProspectCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Cottonwood Gold Eagle MineSilver, IronPast Producer1925
Interstate Brick Quartzite QuarrySilicaPast ProducerQuartz
Lower Bells Canyon WorkingsCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Mortand Cement Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Murray Copper and Victor ClaimsCopper, Gold, LeadOccurrence1912
Murry Refractories PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
New State MineSilver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerVein
Rocky Mouth Canyon AditCopper, Molybdenum, LeadOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Salt Lake 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
Cottonwood Heights1.5 miles25
Knudsens Corner2.5 miles25
Union2.5 miles25
Sandy City3.0 miles24
White City3.2 miles25
Cottonwood (historical)3.7 miles25
Midvale3.8 miles24
Endot4.1 miles24

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 Little Cottonwood Creek ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2415455The 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 1867578. 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.