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Sego, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Thompson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84540. It lies in Sego Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sego Canyon quadrangle. It stands 5,712 feet above sea level.

Sego within Grand County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Sego between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,461 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning1

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
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMoab Field OfficeSEGO CANYON
13 September 2002Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeSKLER
26 August 2005Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeSEGO CYN
16 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMoab Field OfficeTRACK
7 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSoutheast AreaWEST THOMPSON
27 July 2010Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeTAD
27 July 2010Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeTHOMPSON
27 July 2010Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeSAGERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sego: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Pine Tree No.1UraniumOccurrence
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #10009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit. No. 10009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Grand 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
Thompson Springs4.3 miles22
Vista5.0 miles22
Sagers7.3 miles22
Brendel (historical)8.4 miles23
Crescent Junction8.7 miles23
Elba11.9 miles22
Floy14.4 miles23
Solitude17.5 miles24

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 SegoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q547848The 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 1437678. 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.