BlockBefore

Mill Fork, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Springville-Mapleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84660. It lies near Water Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mill Fork quadrangle. It stands 5,820 feet above sea level.

Mill Fork within Utah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Mill Fork between 1992 and 2019, burning about 12,429 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 6 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
Natural45
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
29 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forestnot named
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMOGBECK 1
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMOGBECK 3
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMOGBECK 2
27 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTANK HOLLOW
27 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTURN OUT
22 September 2010Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSHEEP CREEK
20 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsILLEGAL BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mill Fork: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys No 25096Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 25097Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut. Dept. of Hwys. Gravel Pit No. 25097Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut. State Dept. Hwys. Gravel Put No. 25096Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this place

4 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mill Fork in 4 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 2 debris flow, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2022Debris FlowMill Fork$3,500Thunderstorms produced heavy precipitation over the Tank Hollow Fire burn scar, with 1-hour Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor estimates of 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rain. Associated with this, the Dispatch Center in the city of Price reported running water and debris along U.S. Highway 6 from mileposts 197 to 198. It was further reported that dirt and mud was a foot deep, with tree trunks and logs 8 to 10 inches in diameter included in the debris.
April 2025Debris FlowMill Fork$1,000A mud slide happened on U.S. 6 in Spanish Fork Canyon. No vehicles were involved, but both directions were closed for several hours for clean up.
June 2024Flash FloodMill Fork$1,000Diamond Fork Road near the Fifth Water Hot Springs trailhead was closed due to mudslides.
August 2023Flash FloodMill Fork$1,000Diamond Fork Road was closed between the Diamond Campground and Three Forks Trailhead due to water and mud on the road.

Every storm recorded in Utah 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
Sky View (historical)5.0 miles20
Tucker (historical)6.1 miles20
Rio6.7 miles17
Gilluly7.9 miles20
Three Forks8.7 miles22
Thistle10.3 miles17
Patrick Place10.3 miles23
Castilla12.6 miles22

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 Mill ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6858315The 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 1443443. 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.