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Mountain Valley Ranchettes, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ogden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84405. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ogden quadrangle.

Mountain Valley Ranchettes within Weber County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Valley Ranchettes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,381 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural13
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Fireworks7
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5145 AIRPORT RD
9 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEBER CANYON 2
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEBER RIVER
9 September 2007Natural2.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestWEBER STATE
7 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERNWOOD
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestPOWER PLANT
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSNOW CREEK
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined619 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUINTAH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weber County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Valley Ranchettes: 25 prospects, 11 producers, 10 past producers, 8 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone, Uranium, Copper. 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
Alice Mawle MineUraniumOccurrence
Strawberry MineCopper, IronPast Producer
Hobbs Reservoir Talc LocalityTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceUnknown
UnknownTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Clarence Waterfall Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ideal Rock Products South Weber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parsons South Weber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Weber Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

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
Canyon View0.3 miles14
Rio Vista0.5 miles14
Uintah0.5 miles14
Hill View Acres0.7 miles14
East Highland Estates0.7 miles14
High View0.8 miles14
Oquirrh View0.8 miles14
Uintah Junction0.9 miles14

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 Q122598776The 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 1453199. 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.