Soldier Summit, Utah

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Soldier Summit census division. It stands on Left Fork White River. The Survey maps it on the Soldier Summit quadrangle. It stands 7,477 feet above sea level.

Soldier Summit within Wasatch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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 Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
1939 USGS Soldier Summit quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1942 USGS Soldier Summit quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Soldier Summit quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Nephi quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1998 USGS Soldier Summit quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Soldier Summit between 1992 and 2018, burning about 73 acres in total. 14 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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 2009	Natural	6.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SUMMIT
21 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not named
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	WHITE RIVER
14 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DAVIDSON
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	TIRE
3 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not named
27 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Northwest Area	TUCKER
27 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	GILLULY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Three Forks

Every fire 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
Three Forks	7.2 miles	16
Independence	27.5 miles	23
Wallsburg	36.6 miles	21
Timber Lakes	38.6 miles	22
Center Creek	40.7 miles	22
Daniel	41.5 miles	21
Charleston	42.5 miles	21
Heber City	43.7 miles	26

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 Soldier Summit	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8557735	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 1445773. 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.