Murdock, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Milford-Minersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84751. The Survey maps it on the Read quadrangle.

Murdock within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1885 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Read quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Murdock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 235 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ESCALANTE WEST
4 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	TEBBS POND
21 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	SILVER SPR
21 July 1994	Natural	80 acres	Cedar City Field Office	CEDAR COV1
11 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Cedar City Field Office	ESCALANTE
10 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	Cedar City Field Office	WIND FARM EAST
18 May 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	132 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MURDOCK RAIL
15 May 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	RAIL ROAD 4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaver 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 Murdock: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ut Dept Hwys Pit No 01050	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 01050	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept of Hwys Pit #01050	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. 01050	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Wiseman Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Beaver 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Smyths	4.2 miles	13
Yellow Banks	5.4 miles	17
Milford	7.5 miles	11
Blueacre	7.9 miles	9
Upton	13.1 miles	10
Shenendoah City	13.2 miles	9
Cook Corner	14.8 miles	10
Shauntie	14.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437647. 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.