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Manderfield, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beaver census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84713. It lies near Big Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Beaver quadrangle.

Manderfield within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

64 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Manderfield between 1993 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 21 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
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
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
5 September 1994Arson/incendiarism20 acresCedar City Field OfficeBLACKMT.
27 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCedar City Field OfficeMM 117 I 15
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouthwest AreaROCKY FIELD
10 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeBON
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeEXIT 120
4 August 2002Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSHEEP ROCK
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFORTUNA
22 August 1999Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeLONE TREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Manderfield: 15 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Potassium, Aluminum, Gold, 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
Sheeprock Canyon ProspectGold, SilverOccurrenceStockwork
Sheeprock MinePotassium, Aluminum, GoldPast Producer1914
Sheeprock MinePotassiumPast Producer
Sunday MineGold, UraniumPast ProducerReplacement
Glider MineUraniumPast ProducerGold
Glider MineUraniumPast Producer
Unknown ProspectUraniumOccurrenceHydrothermal Vein
Unknown ProspectUraniumProspect
Unknown ProspectsUraniumOccurrenceTorbernite
Unknown ProspectsUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Beaver 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
North Creek3.6 miles17
Cunningham Hill5.2 miles15
Beaver5.7 miles15
Greenville8.2 miles15
Adamsville10.8 miles15
Sulphurdale14.2 miles15
Minersville18.1 miles17
Yellow Banks19.1 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 ManderfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16888405The 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 1430074. 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.