BlockRainbow City, Utah
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Oljato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86044. The Survey maps it on the Navajo Begay quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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.
- 1886 USGS Henry Mountains quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Henry Mountains quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Navajo Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Navajo Mountain quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Navajo Begay quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Rainbow City between 1994 and 2009, burning about 581 acres in total. 3 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | 220 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAV MTN1 |
| 4 September 1994 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAV. MTN. |
| 24 July 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJOMTN2 |
| 20 June 1999 | Natural | 360 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJO MTN 1 |
| 3 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NAVAJO MTN 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navajo Mountain | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Oljato | 23.8 miles | 18 | |
| Clay Hills Crossing | 24.9 miles | 21 | |
| Halls Crossing | 27.4 miles | 18 | |
| Goulding | 30.0 miles | 19 | |
| Halchita | 46.7 miles | 21 | |
| Mexican Hat | 48.0 miles | 21 | |
| Fry Canyon | 50.8 miles | 20 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1434972. 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.