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Penrose, Utah

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Tremonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84337. It lies near Jesses Knoll. The Survey maps it on the Thatcher Mountain quadrangle. It stands 4,268 feet above sea level.

Penrose within Box Elder County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Penrose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,218 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural11
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGREEN WASTE
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHERRIE MCNEELY
5 September 2001Natural40 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMOULDING
20 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHWY 102 MP 1 & 2
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOKADA'S PENROSE
17 September 2000Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPENROSE MOUNTAIN
15 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJACKSON FIRE
1 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLITTLE MOUNTAIN NW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Penrose: 16 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Christensen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Christensen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Compton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Compton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jensen #02054 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Jensen #02054 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jensen #02055 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Jensen #02055 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnnamedSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnnamedSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penrose in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023FloodPenrose$30,000Broad areas of sheet flooding were observed in the greater Tremonton area due to rain on snow. Roads in communities near the Sky Way Golf Course in Tremonton were noted to be under several inches of water, with several homes impacted. Water was also reported to be overflowing the banks of the Malad River and Bear River.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPenrose$10,000Social media video showed strong winds, small hail, and heavy rain in Penrose. A garage door was damaged. The peak wind gust was estimated at 60 mph.

Every storm 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
Thatcher3.0 miles11
Bothwell5.1 miles11
Lampo Junction6.5 miles11
Cropley6.8 miles9
Evans6.9 miles11
Ford7.3 miles11
Tremonton8.4 miles9
Bradford8.7 miles9

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 PenroseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7164636The 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 1437656. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.