North View, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Parowan census division. It lies near Orange Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Brian Head quadrangle.

North View within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1886 USGS Kanab quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Cedar Breaks quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Panguitch quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Brian Head quadrangle1:24000
2002 USGS Brian Head quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of North View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72,190 acres in total. 37 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
Natural	37
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	CRYSTAL
3 September 2019	Natural	437 acres	Cedar Breaks National Monument	CHESSMAN CANYON
23 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	THUNDER RIDGE
2 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named
1 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	HIGH MOUNTAIN
9 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	not named
7 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	not named
5 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	SKIDDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Brian Head

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of North View: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, 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
Bear Flat Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Soil
Bear Flat Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Black Hawk	Manganese	Occurrence
Black Hawk and Joe Louis Claims	Manganese	Prospect	1952

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Brian Head	2.6 miles	18
Cedar Highlands	11.3 miles	19
Summit	11.3 miles	14
Cedar City	12.1 miles	19
Parowan	12.8 miles	16
Enoch	12.9 miles	17
Fort Johnson	13.4 miles	17
Paragonah	16.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1443987. 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.