Oak Creek Residential Area, Utah
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Hurricane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84767. It stands on Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Springdale East quadrangle.
On record in Oak Creek Residential Area
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 10 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Oak Creek Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 0.1 miles away
Crawford Irrigation Canallisted 1987 · 0.3 miles away
South Campground Amphitheaterlisted 1987 · 0.5 miles away
Oak Creek Irrigation Canallisted 1987 · 0.6 miles away
South Entrance Signlisted 1987 · 0.7 miles away
Pine Creek Residential Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 0.7 miles away
Flanigan Ditchlisted 1998 · 0.7 miles away
Pine Creek Irrigation Canallisted 1987 · 0.8 miles away
Zion Nature Center-Zion Innlisted 1987 · 0.8 miles away
South Campground Comfort Stationlisted 1987 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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 City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Kanab quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Springdale East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1997 USGS Springdale East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
175 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Oak Creek Residential Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 594 acres in total. 101 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 101 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | PETRIFIED |
| 9 September 2004 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Zion National Park | COUGAR |
| 8 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | MOKI |
| 6 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | TIN ROOF |
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | OAK CREEK |
| 3 September 2011 | Natural | 196 acres | Zion National Park | HERBS |
| 3 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | COUNTY FIRE |
| 3 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | WYLIE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watchman Residential Area | 0.6 miles | 16 | |
| Springdale | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Zion Lodge | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Shunesburg | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Rockville | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Grafton | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Virgin | 10.7 miles | 15 | |
| Apple Valley | 11.1 miles | 17 |
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 Q122543274 | The 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 1450451. 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.






