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Modena, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Beryl-Newcastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84753. The Survey maps it on the Modena quadrangle. 15 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,476 feet above sea level.

Modena within Iron County

On record in Modena

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Modena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,321 acres in total. 37 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
Natural37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGULCH ROAD FIRE/MODENA S
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMEDITERRANEAN
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficePROFESSOR
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest AreaHILLCREST
26 September 2008Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFINAO
19 September 1994Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMT ELENORE
18 September 2008Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeLOST MODENA
4 August 2008Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeCLUMPAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Modena: 11 occurrences, 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Uranium. 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
Modena Alunite VeinAluminumOccurrenceVein
Red Ant No 1Silver, GoldOccurrence
Red Ant #1Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Red Ant #1Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
UnknownUraniumOccurrenceReplacement
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Unknown Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrenceVein
Unknown Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrenceVein
Unknown Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Mcdonald Wash ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Modena in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2005: 1 flash flood, 1 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
July 2003Flash FloodModena$1,000The town of Modena reported heavy rain with small hail and localized street flooding. The storm dumped 1.30 inches of rain in less than 30 minutes, and the wind and hail broke some windows.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindModena-Trees down
August 2005HailModena-no account filed

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
Heist5.5 miles13
Yale Crossing10.3 miles13
Hamlin Valley14.0 miles14
State Line14.6 miles14
Beryl15.5 miles13
Beryl Junction15.5 miles13
Zane20.1 miles13
Newcastle21.9 miles15

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 ModenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q10968673The 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 1430394. 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.