BlockRed Wash, Utah
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. The Survey maps it on the Red Wash quadrangle. It stands 5,709 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.
- 1885 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1907 USGS Jensen quadrangle1:125000
- 1910 USGS Jensen quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Red Wash quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Red Wash between 1996 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. 10 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 | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Vernal Field Office | ANTELOPE |
| 13 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HIGHWAY 45 |
| 1 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Vernal Field Office | ANTELOPE DRAW |
| 3 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Vernal Field Office | GLEN BENCH |
| 28 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Uintah and Ouray Agency | RED BLUFF |
| 15 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GREEN RIVER |
| 31 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Vernal Field Office | MILE 19 |
| 3 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | POWER LINE |
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.
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 Q122597866 | 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 1431709. 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.