Roper, 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 Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
• 1925 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000
• 1928 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Salt Lake City South quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Salt Lake City South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1980 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1999 USGS Salt Lake City South quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Roper between 1992 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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:

• South Salt Lake
• Redwood (historical)
• Becks
• Buena Vista
• Granger
• Granite

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Roper: 19 past producers, 15 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roper in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm 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 1437669. 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.