Royal, 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.

• 1886 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1896 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000
• 1914 USGS Castle Gate quadrangle1:62500
• 1916 USGS Castle Gate quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Standardville quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Price quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Royal between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,777 acres in total. 59 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:

• Castle Gate (historical)
• Heiner
• Martin
• Storrs
• Helper
• Peerless

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Royal: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Carbon County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437670. 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.