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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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 Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1948 USGS Orem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Timpanogos Cave quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Timpanogos Cave quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Provo quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Timpanogos Cave quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Timpanogos Cave quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
128 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 58 |
| Natural | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | RED PINE |
| 8 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | TIBBLE |
| 8 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | TANK CANYON #2 |
| 8 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | TANK CANYON #1 |
| 8 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | TIMPOONEKE RD #2 |
| 4 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | WHITE PINE LAKE |
| 4 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | MINERAL BASIN |
| 4 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | DRY CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 87 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Superior Tunnel | Copper, Molybdenum, Silver | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| American Fork | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Bay State Mine | Silver, Lead, Antimony, Zinc, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | Barite, Sphalerite, Stibnite | |
| Bay State Mine | Lead, Silver, Antimony, Barium-Barite, Zinc | Occurrence | 1912, 1915, 1919 | |
| Bay State Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Antimony, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Big Dane No. 1 | Iron | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Blue Rock | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Dutchman | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Globe Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1947 | |
| Globe Mines | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mutual Dell | 3.6 miles | 24 | |
| Aspen Grove | 7.0 miles | 23 | |
| Highland | 7.2 miles | 21 | |
| Alpine | 7.5 miles | 21 | |
| Sundance | 8.1 miles | 23 | |
| Cedar Hills | 8.2 miles | 21 | |
| Wildwood | 10.4 miles | 23 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 10.4 miles | 24 |
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 Q122557109 | The 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.









