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Oak Ridge Acres, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ogden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84403. It lies near Strongs Peak. The Survey maps it on the Ogden quadrangle.

Oak Ridge Acres 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Oak Ridge Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,563 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined37
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony25
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Debris and open burning8
Fireworks7
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 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 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestPOWER PLANT
6 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor35 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTAYLOR CANYON
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined619 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUINTAH
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest59 OGDEN CYN
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest AreaCANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weber County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Oak Ridge Acres: 12 prospects, 7 producers, 7 past producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Geothermal. 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
Ogden Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Norman Fluorspar DepositFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1953, 1957
Norman Fluorspar DepositFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Norman MineFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Norman MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1953
Clarence Waterfall Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ideal Rock Products South Weber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parsons South Weber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
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
Beus Hills2.1 miles14
Southridge Nine2.1 miles14
England Hills2.2 miles14
Chanenton Cove2.2 miles14
Knollwood Estates Plat One2.2 miles14
Oak View Estates2.3 miles14
Bona Villa Park2.3 miles14
University Place Addition2.3 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 Q122566265The 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 1453126. 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.