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Oquirrh, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84081. The Survey maps it on the Magna quadrangle. 10,390 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 4,921 feet above sea level.

Oquirrh within Salt Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 20 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

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Oquirrh between 1998 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsU 111
19 May 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFIRST
4 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5525 S COUGAR LN
1 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5167 W 6275 S
26 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5350 S NORTHWEST AVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Oquirrh: 18 producers, 6 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead. 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
Barneys Canyon Gold DepositGold, SilverPast Producer1989
Murray Slag DumpZinc, LeadProducer
Bingham Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Brim Hall Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brim Hall Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Harper Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Harper Sand and Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer1981
Kearns Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kearns Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kearns Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Salt Lake 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
Kearns2.8 miles25
Welby3.7 miles24
Bacchus4.0 miles20
West Valley City4.6 miles20
Hunter4.6 miles20
Bennion (historical)5.1 miles25
Robbe5.2 miles19
West Jordan5.2 miles24

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 OquirrhAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2236190The 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 1867581. 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.