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Panguitch Lake Resort, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Panguitch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84759. It stands on Blue Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Panguitch Lake quadrangle. It stands 8,235 feet above sea level.

Panguitch Lake Resort within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Panguitch Lake Resort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,076 acres in total. 56 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
Natural56
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking3
Other causes2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestPASS CREEK
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestROCK
5 September 2006Natural1.0 acresDixie National ForestCREEP
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestCOOPER KNOLL
19 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreDixie National Forestnot named
19 September 1994Naturalunder an acreDixie National Forestnot named
14 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDixie National Forestnot named
1 September 1996Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestPASS CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Panguitch Lake Resort: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Miller KnollStoneOccurrence
Black Rock Valley ClaimsStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrencePumice, Scoria, Tuff
Miller KnollStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrencePumice, Scoria

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Juniper Park Resort1.1 miles18
Lake View Resort1.2 miles18
Hatch11.7 miles16
Panguitch13.5 miles15
Hillsdale13.8 miles16
Bear Valley Junction21.5 miles16
Bryce Canyon25.7 miles15
Bryce Canyon City25.8 miles15

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 Q99237088The 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 1451320. 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.