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Mountain Valley Meadows, Utah

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ogden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84317. It stands on Bally Watts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Browns Hole quadrangle.

Mountain Valley Meadows within Weber County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Valley Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,910 acres in total. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony24
Debris and open burning13
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBOON FIRE
5 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMIDDLE INLET PICNIC
3 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFARMINGTON FLAT
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestPOWER PLANT
22 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOLA FIRE
21 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestWHEELER CREEK
2 September 2002Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMAGPIE
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use9.3 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMIDDLE FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weber County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Valley Meadows: 5 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Radford Clay DepositClayPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Radford Clay DepositFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Phosphate DepositsPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Phosphate DepositsPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Phosphate DepositsPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29030Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29036Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29037Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29038Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29046Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Weber 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
South Fork Ranchettes1.4 miles10
Huntsville1.9 miles12
Huntsville Hollow2.1 miles10
Casey Acres2.6 miles12
Valley Lake Estates2.6 miles11
Middle Fork Ranches2.8 miles12
Minnie Creek Estates4.2 miles12
Pine View West4.8 miles12

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 Q122541752The 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 1453590. 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.