Riter, Utah

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.

• 1885 USGS Tooele Valley quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1951 USGS Saltair quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1972 USGS Saltair quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1979 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Baileys Lake quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Riter between 2008 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Magna
• Magna Mill
• Hunter
• Arthur
• Bacchus
• Garfield

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Riter: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 3 plants. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437667. 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.