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Samak, Utah

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Kamas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84036. It lies near Red Pine Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Woodland quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,857 feet above sea level.

Samak within Summit County

Population over time

2 figures

Samak fell from 287 to 93 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010287
202093-194 (-68%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Samak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 771 acres in total. 50 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
Natural50
Recreation and ceremony40
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes4
Fireworks2

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
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMRS FIELDS BENCH CREEK
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWOODLAND HILLS
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCOOP CREEK 2
3 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSLATE
28 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestLOG HOLLOW
27 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSS HILL
23 September 2011Other causesunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWOODLAND DUCE
21 September 2015Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestRILEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Samak: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Chuck Nos. 1 - 6 , 8 - 15Gold, Silver, Iron, ManganeseOccurrenceJasper
Exploration Investment QuarryGemstonePast ProducerSurface
Gold Bullion Nos. 1 - 5Manganese, Gold, Silver, IronOccurrenceJasper
High Bluff Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerAndesite
Lucky Strike Nos. 1 - 4 , 6Iron, Silver, Gold, ManganeseOccurrenceJasper
Quarry Near Woodland CemeteryStonePast Producer
Utah Silver GroupLead, Silver, GoldProducer
Utah Silver Nos. 1 , 2 , 5 , 7 , 8 , 23 , 24Silver, Gold, Iron, ManganeseOccurrence
High Bluff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSurface
Woodland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerQuartzite, Sandstone

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Woodland2.6 miles24
Francis3.6 miles23
Kamas4.0 miles23
Marion5.5 miles23
Oakley8.1 miles23
Peoa10.0 miles23
Keetley Junction13.7 miles26
Park City15.2 miles26

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.

Wikipedia article on SamakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q597722The 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 1432157. 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.