BlockBefore

Low, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Dugway-Wendover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84029. The Survey maps it on the Low quadrangle. It stands 4,600 feet above sea level.

Low within Tooele County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Low between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,162 acres in total. 27 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/undetermined29
Natural27
Equipment and vehicle use17
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Smoking1
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
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined108 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeJACKSON 2
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined178 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeJACKSON
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeLOW
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeHASTINGS
28 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use8.6 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeLAKESIDE 63
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined297 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeTOWER
12 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeGUARD RAIL 3
12 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeGUARD RAIL 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Low: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Aragonite Quarry NorthLimestone, GeneralProducerVein
Hastings Pass Nw MineLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerVein
Se Aragonite QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerVein
So Aragonite QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerVein
Hastings Pass GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 23085Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut. Dept. Highways Gravel Pit 23085Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. Highways Gravel Pit#23083Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. Hwys Gravel Pit #23079Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. Hwys. Borrow Pit #23084Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Low in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2016HailLow-Golf ball-sized hail was observed and photographed along Interstate 80 near Aragonite.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLow-A 63 mph wind gust was recorded at the I-80 at Grassey, UT sensor.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLow-A 60 mph wind gust was recorded at the Salt Flats sensor in the Dugway Proving Ground mesonet.

Every storm 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
Aragonite4.4 miles8
Delle8.8 miles14
Clive10.8 miles8
Timpie15.3 miles16
Knolls19.0 miles8
Iosepa (historical)20.0 miles17
Dolomite20.2 miles16
Flux21.7 miles16

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 LowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711791The 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 1437626. 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.

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.