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Sage Creek Junction, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Randolph-Woodruff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84064. It stands on Sage Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leefe quadrangle.

Sage Creek Junction within Rich County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Sage Creek Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLincoln CountyLOCKWOOD
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresBear River AreaBAILER
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMINE RD
24 August 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILLOW
20 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeMILE MARKER 26
18 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBQ
12 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAYSTACK
10 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresBear River AreaDIAMOND W

Every fire recorded in Rich County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Sage Creek Junction: 19 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Selenium, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crawford Mountains GroupPhosphorus-Phosphates, UraniumPast Producer1904, 1907
Lakeview Manganese MineManganeseOccurrence
UnknownLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceCalcite
Arickaree MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, SeleniumPast Producer1897, 1907
Mandan MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, SeleniumPast ProducerBedded -Phosphate
Sioux ClaimPhosphorus-Phosphates, SeleniumOccurrenceWhitlockite
Cherokee MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1957
Emma MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1897, 1954
Pawnee MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast ProducerBedded - Phosphate
Tuscarora MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1897, 1954

Every working recorded in Rich County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Randolph8.0 miles13
Laketown11.3 miles13
Meadowville15.6 miles13
Garden16.2 miles16
Pickelville (historical)17.2 miles16
Woodruff17.4 miles13
Garden City18.9 miles16
Lakota21.2 miles16

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 Q122547882The 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 1437672. 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.