BlockPartoun, Utah
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the West Juab census division. It lies near Little Red Cedar Wash. The Survey maps it on the Partoun quadrangle. It stands 4,800 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1908 USGS Fish Springs quadrangle1:250000
- 1910 USGS Fish Springs quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Fish Springs quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
- 1991 USGS Partoun quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Partoun: 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon | Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| Detroit District | Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Antimony, Arsenic, Tin, Yttrium, Bismuth, Mercury | Past Producer | REPLACEMENT FISSURE | |
| Heavenly Hills Prospect | Uranium, Iron, Silver | Prospect | GOSSAN, REPLACEMENT | |
| Singleton Canyon Area | Silver, Gold, Copper, Manganese, Iron | Occurrence | Gold, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrolusite, Silver | |
| Spaghetti Shaft | Silver, Copper, Gold | Occurrence | Gold, Limonite, Malachite | |
| Unknown | Uranium, Silver, Gold, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Unknown Shaft | Uranium, Gold, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Underground | |
| Spaghetti Shaft | Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trout Creek | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Goshute | 17.1 miles | 30 | |
| Callao | 20.0 miles | 17 | |
| Fish Springs | 29.2 miles | 19 | |
| Joy | 44.2 miles | 21 | |
| Champlin | 84.0 miles | 15 | |
| Jericho | 89.5 miles | 16 | |
| Uisco | 89.6 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.
| Wikipedia article on Partoun | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7140806 | 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 1437285. 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.
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.