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.
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 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Park Valley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS Grouse Creek quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Park Valley quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
32 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | ROSETTE |
| 22 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BOBCAT FIRE |
| 2 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CARTER-BALD KNOLL |
| 2 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SOUTH ROSETTE |
| 12 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ROSETTE |
| 6 August 2010 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | HEREFORD |
| 31 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CHAIN |
| 3 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CARTER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turquoise Stone Quarry | Quartz, Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Left Hand Dunn Canyon | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Left Hand Dunn Canyon | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Lower Fisher Creek | Stone | Producer | ||
| Lower Fishes Creek | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Right Hand Dunn Canyon | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | Surface/Underground | |
| Right Hand Dunn Canyon | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Rock Canyon Stone | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Rock Canyon Stone | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Upper Fisher Creek | Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | Surface |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosette | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Hardup | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| Kelton | 12.8 miles | 10 | |
| Standrod | 13.1 miles | 13 | |
| Cedar Creek | 13.7 miles | 11 | |
| Yost | 15.0 miles | 12 | |
| Curlew Junction | 17.5 miles | 11 | |
| Matlin | 17.9 miles | 10 |
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 Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7138118 | 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 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.






