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Pigeon Hollow Junction, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Mount Pleasant-Moroni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84627. It lies near Pigeon Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

Pigeon Hollow Junction within Sanpete County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Pigeon Hollow Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 310 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined18
Natural13
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks1
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
5 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsE FIRE
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJUNCTION SPOT
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSALVAGE YARD
11 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJORGENSEN STUBBLE
7 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPRICHARD
7 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWHITE HILL
5 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEPHRAIM SMOKE CAMPFIRE
30 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsACF 200552 BLACK HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Pigeon Hollow Junction: 31 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Black Hill Limestone QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerLimestone
Black Hill Limestone QuarryStonePast Producer
Little Pigeon Hollow Limestone Quarry #1Stone, DimensionPast ProducerLimestone
Little Pigeon Hollow Ls.Quarry No.1StonePast Producer
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry #1Stone, DimensionPast ProducerLimestone
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry #2Stone, DimensionPast ProducerLimestone
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry #3Stone, DimensionPast ProducerSurface
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry No.1StonePast Producer
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry No.2StonePast Producer
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry No.3StonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete 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
West Ephraim3.6 miles16
Chester3.8 miles16
Ephraim4.5 miles16
Spring City5.4 miles16
Wales6.0 miles16
Moroni7.3 miles18
Freedom9.6 miles19
Mount Pleasant10.2 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122544243The 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 1444351. 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.