Paradise Hills, Utah

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the South Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84010. It lies near North Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Fort Douglas quadrangle.

Paradise Hills within Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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 Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
1925 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000
1928 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Fort Douglas quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Fort Douglas quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Fort Douglas quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1998 USGS Fort Douglas quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,484 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	23
Natural	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Fireworks	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
6 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LUCKY LYNN
6 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	TELEPHONE POLE
5 September 2002	Natural	50 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	CITY CREEK
28 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	BUCKLAND 2
22 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not named
2 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BURNHAM
19 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	WILLEY HALLOW FIRE
16 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	BUCKLAND FLAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Paradise Hills: 19 producers, 11 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 past producers. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Beryllium, Copper. 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
Foulger	Quartz	Occurrence
Home and Wood Pit	Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sessions Mountains Prospect	Lead, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Upper Ward Canyon Prospects	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Underground
Beryl	Beryllium	Occurrence
Beryl	Beryllium	Occurrence
Burro Peak South Prospects	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Rotary Park Prospects	Iron	Occurrence	Replacement
Se Centerville Canyon Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Sw Centerville Canyon Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Malachite

Every working recorded in Davis 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
Country Hills	0.1 miles	27
Nelson	0.2 miles	27
Oakhaven Village	0.2 miles	27
Orchard Park	0.2 miles	27
Oak Way	0.3 miles	27
Ern Hayes	0.3 miles	25
Mueller Heights	0.3 miles	27
Emerald Hills	0.3 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1453821. 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.