Silver Reef, Utah
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Hurricane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84746. It lies near Buckeye Reef. The Survey maps it on the Pintura quadrangle. It stands 3,796 feet above sea level.
On record in Silver Reef
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Wells Fargo and Company Express Buildinglisted 1971
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Wells, Fargo & Company Express Building, Main Street, Silver Reeffederal building survey, 4 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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 St. George quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS St. George quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS La Verkin 2 SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New Harmony quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS St. George quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Pintura quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Pintura quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
5 photographs, 2022Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
157 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Silver Reef between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,204 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 59 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LEEDS ASST #2 |
| 7 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | LEEDS CREEK |
| 7 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | TOQUERVILLE ASSIST 2 |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | CAROLINA |
| 6 September 2012 | Natural | 5.2 acres | Dixie National Forest | HEATH WASH |
| 6 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | ITALIAN SPRING |
| 5 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | SILVER REEF |
| 30 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | WHITE REEF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 91 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 91 workings within 5 miles of Silver Reef: 64 past producers, 12 occurrences, 7 prospects, 4 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Uranium, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chloride Chief | Silver, Uranium, Copper, Vanadium | Past Producer | Carnotite, Cerargyrite, Malachite, Vanadinite | |
| Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | Ash | |
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Hot Rock #1 | Uranium, Vanadium, Silver | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Hot Rock No.1 | Vanadium, Silver, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Nevada | Copper, Uranium, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Newton Mine - Nichols | Silver, Uranium, Copper | Prospect | Underground | |
| Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sandstone Quarry | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Vanderbilt No.5 Mines | Silver, Copper, Uranium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Reef in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Silver Reef | $1,000 | A thunderstorm produced heavy rainfall over the course of an hour or so in the high terrain northwest of the town of Leeds, UT. Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor 1-hour estimates show around 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rainfall with this storm. An initial report was received of water over the bridge at Red Cliffs Campground as water flowed out of Water Canyon and through Harrisburg Creek. A short time later, a video was found on Twitter showing water flowing through the campground and overtopping the access bridge. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Harrisburg | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Anderson Junction | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Toquerville | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| LaVerkin | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Hurricane | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| Harrisburg Junction | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Pintura | 7.8 miles | 18 |
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 Silver Reef | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1290302 | 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 1445602. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









