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Park Valley, Utah

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the West Box Elder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84329. It lies near Chicken Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Park Valley quadrangle. It stands 6,493 feet above sea level.

Park Valley within Box Elder County

On record in Park Valley

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Park Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,723 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeROSETTE
22 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBOBCAT FIRE
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCARTER-BALD KNOLL
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSOUTH ROSETTE
12 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROSETTE
6 August 2010Natural3.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeHEREFORD
31 August 2017Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHAIN
3 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCARTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Park Valley: 14 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Quartz, Stone, Dimension. 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
Turquoise Stone QuarryQuartz, Stone, DimensionProducer
Left Hand Dunn CanyonStone, DimensionPast ProducerSurface
Left Hand Dunn CanyonStonePast Producer
Lower Fisher CreekStoneProducer
Lower Fishes CreekStone, DimensionPast ProducerSurface
Right Hand Dunn CanyonStone, DimensionOccurrenceSurface/Underground
Right Hand Dunn CanyonStonePast Producer
Rock Canyon StoneStone, DimensionPast ProducerSurface
Rock Canyon StoneStonePast Producer
Upper Fisher CreekStone, DimensionOccurrenceSurface

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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
Rosette4.4 miles13
Hardup10.8 miles11
Kelton12.8 miles10
Standrod13.1 miles13
Cedar Creek13.7 miles11
Yost15.0 miles12
Curlew Junction17.5 miles11
Matlin17.9 miles10

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 Park ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7138118The 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 1431110. 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.