Shem, 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 St. George quadrangle1:250000
• 1891 USGS St. George quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Beaver Dam Mts NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS St. George quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Shivwits quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Shem between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26,928 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 2 were 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:

• Shivwits
• Central
• Gunlock
• Ivins
• Toquerville

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Shem: 10 occurrences, 6 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium. 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 Washington 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 1437681. 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.