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Silver Lake Summer Home Area, Utah

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the American Fork-Pleasant Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84003. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Timpanogos Cave quadrangle.

Silver Lake Summer Home Area within Utah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Silver Lake Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,023 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 4 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.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony58
Natural38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestRED PINE
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTIBBLE
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTANK CANYON #2
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTANK CANYON #1
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTIMPOONEKE RD #2
4 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestWHITE PINE LAKE
4 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMINERAL BASIN
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestDRY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Silver Lake Summer Home Area: 49 past producers, 25 occurrences, 7 producers, 6 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Lead, Lead, Silver, Silver. 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
Alta Superior TunnelCopper, Molybdenum, SilverOccurrenceUnknown
American ForkGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, TungstenOccurrence
Bay State MineSilver, Lead, Antimony, Zinc, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Bay State MineLead, Silver, Antimony, Barium-Barite, ZincOccurrence1912, 1915, 1919
Bay State MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Antimony, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Big Dane No. 1IronOccurrenceVein
Blue RockLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerUnderground
DutchmanZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast ProducerUnderground
Globe MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer1947
Globe MinesLead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Utah 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
Mutual Dell3.6 miles24
Aspen Grove7.0 miles23
Highland7.2 miles21
Alpine7.5 miles21
Sundance8.1 miles23
Cedar Hills8.2 miles21
Wildwood10.4 miles23
Pleasant Grove10.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122557109The 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 1454894. 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.