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Mountain Spa, Utah

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Heber City West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84049. It lies near Memorial Hill. The Survey maps it on the Heber City quadrangle.

Mountain Spa within Wasatch County

On record in Mountain Spa

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 within a mile 11 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Spa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 839 acres in total. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Debris and open burning40
Equipment and vehicle use22
Fireworks15
Natural13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
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
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSWEAT
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHEBER ASSIST 2
6 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSMITH FIRE
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDEER CREEK RAINBOW BAY
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMIDWAY 6TH SO.
29 September 2002Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLITTLE SPOT
29 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyBWALLOW1
24 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHEBER CREEPER 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasatch County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Spa: 8 producers, 5 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Zinc, Lead. 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
Blue Ledge-Mayflower MineCopper, SilverOccurrence
Copper Queen ProspectsCopper, IronOccurrenceGoethite, Magnetite, Malachite
Cottonwood Canyon Stone QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerSurface
Midway Hot PotGeothermalUnknown
Midway Tufa QuarriesLimestone, High CalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Park Heber TunnelLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Superior ProspectsZincOccurrence
Thaynes MineZinc, LeadProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Big Hollow Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerQuartzite
Central Cottonwood Canyon ProspectsPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Wasatch 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
Midway1.0 miles26
Interlaken1.2 miles26
Mound City1.3 miles26
Heber City3.1 miles26
Charleston4.0 miles21
Daniel4.7 miles21
Jordanelle5.2 miles26
Cranmer6.5 miles26

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.

Wikidata item Q122563885The 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 1436005. 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.