Old Irontown, Utah

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Old Irontownlisted 1971 · 0.0 miles away

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Coke Oven, State Route 56 Vicinity, Old Irontownfederal building survey, 2 photographs

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 St. George quadrangle1:250000
• 1891 USGS St. George quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Page Ranch quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Page Ranch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:100000
• 2002 USGS Page Ranch quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Old Irontown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 88 started naturally. 2 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Iron Mountain
• Cedar Highlands
• Hamiltons Fort
• Newcastle

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Old Irontown: 16 past producers, 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Iron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Irontown in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Iron County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1444069. 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.