Osiris, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Tropic census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84712. It stands on North Creek. The Survey maps it on the Antimony quadrangle. It stands 6,723 feet above sea level.

Osiris within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1885 USGS Fish Lake quadrangle1:250000
1896 USGS Fish Lake quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Antimony quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Loa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Osiris between 1995 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	MUD MESS
24 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	POISON
15 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	MUD LAKE
8 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Southwest Area	BLACK RIDGE
24 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	DAN DAY
2 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	MUD LAKE
18 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	CHIPPER
16 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Osiris: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Poison Creek Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Poisson Creek Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 09025	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #09025	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel

Every working recorded in Garfield 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
Antimony	6.8 miles	17
Widtsoe	13.2 miles	16
Widtsoe Junction	13.4 miles	14
Spry	21.3 miles	13
Bear Valley Junction	24.2 miles	16
Bone Valley	24.4 miles	15
Escalante	25.8 miles	17
Bryce Canyon City	26.2 miles	15

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 Q132413710

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 1444115. 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.