Soapstone Summer Home Area, Utah

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Heber City East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84036. It stands on Soapstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Soapstone Basin quadrangle.

Soapstone Summer Home Area within Wasatch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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.

1885 USGS Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
1900 USGS Coalville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1903 USGS Coalville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Soapstone Basin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1998 USGS Soapstone Basin quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Soapstone Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 458 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	43
Recreation and ceremony	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	CAR
8 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	OUTPOST
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LITTLE SOUTH FORK
5 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	PITT AND PAGE
29 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SOAPSTONE
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	PINE VALLEY 2
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	PINE VALLEY
28 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LOG HOLLOW

Every fire recorded in Wasatch County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Soapstone Summer Home Area: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Rhodium, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Blue Hill Prospect	Rhodium, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Unknown
Western Uinta Range Group	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium	Prospect	1914
Ut Dep of Hwys No 26032	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ut Dept of Highways No 22058	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 22057	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 22057	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 22058	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit. No. 26032	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Quartzite

Every working recorded in Wasatch 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Timber Lakes	12.5 miles	22
Center Creek	17.5 miles	22
Hailstone	19.2 miles	26
Hideout	19.5 miles	26
Keetley	19.7 miles	26
Heber City	19.7 miles	26
Jordanelle	20.0 miles	26
Daniel	20.5 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1454902. 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.