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Lund, Utah

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Cedar City census division. It stands on Lund Flats. The Survey maps it on the Lund quadrangle. It stands 5,085 feet above sea level.

Lund within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lund between 1997 and 2020, burning about 863 acres in total. 13 started naturally. None 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
3 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeJENSEN SP5
20 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeI407
16 August 2001Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeLUND
16 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLAND EAST
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined837 acresSouthwest AreaLUND
27 July 2013Natural11 acresCedar City Field OfficeLUND
26 July 2006Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeWILDCAD 913
19 July 2010Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeCHASE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lund: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No 11074Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. 11074Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lund in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
July 2021Flash FloodLund3 hurt, $1,000,000Flash flooding near Lund derailed a Union Pacific Railroad train, forcing 14 cars off of the tracks. Train tracks were determined to be washed out at a small bridge crossing over a normally dry wash. After the train derailed, injured train operators were trapped on top of the overturned train as flood waters continued to rise. In addition, emergency responders were washed off of the road to the crash site by the flood waters, delaying response to the injured train operators.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindLund-The LATMER mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 65 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLund-The Jensen Spring RAWS recorded a maximum wind gust of 65 mph.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Latimer8.9 miles8
Avon8.9 miles13
Zane9.8 miles13
Beryl14.4 miles13
Yale Crossing19.5 miles13
Iron Springs20.6 miles18
Desert Mound22.1 miles16
Beryl Junction23.8 miles13

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 LundAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709460The 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 1430015. 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.