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Newhouse, Utah

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Milford-Minersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84751. The Survey maps it on the Frisco quadrangle. It stands 5,151 feet above sea level.

Newhouse within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Newhouse between 1992 and 2012, burning about 78 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 August 2004Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeBACK
19 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeFRISCO PK
17 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSQUAW SPRING
13 August 2009Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficePACMAN
1 August 1996Natural25 acresCedar City Field OfficeSQUAWSPRG
8 July 2011Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeFRISCO
7 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeTINY
29 July 2008Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSIXTY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Newhouse: 27 past producers, 13 occurrences, 6 producers, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Copper, Lead, Zinc, 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
CactusSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperProducer1870, 1892
Cactus MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron, ManganesePast Producer1870
Cactus MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Tungsten, GoldOccurrenceArgentite, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Cactus MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Tungsten, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Cupric MineTungsten, Copper, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerMalachite, Scheelite
Frisco Silver and LeadSilver, Zinc, Gold, LeadProducer
Frisco Summit ShaftLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Frisco Summit ShaftZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Horn Silver HornZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer1875
Horn Silver MineLead, Zinc, SilverProducerCerargyrite, Plumbojarosite

Every working recorded in Beaver County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newhouse in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2023Thunderstorm WindNewhouse-The Brimstone Reservoir RAWS station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNewhouse-The Brimstone Reservoir automated weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 66 mph.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNewhouse-The Brimstone Reservoir RAWS recorded a maximum wind gust of 72 mph.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNewhouse-The Brimstone Reservoir RAWS recorded a maximum wind gust of 58 mph.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindNewhouse-The Brimstone Reservoir RAWS recorded a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
August 2012Tornado (EF0)Newhouse-The Beaver County Sheriff reported a tornado along the Utah/Nevada border.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNewhouse-Brimstone Reservoir RAWS recorded a wind gust of 63 mph.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Frisco4.7 miles11
Blueacre11.1 miles9
Shauntie13.4 miles9
Shenendoah City14.0 miles9
Upton18.2 miles10
Milford18.5 miles11
Murdock19.0 miles13
Laho19.1 miles10

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 NewhouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1649820The 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 1437650. 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.