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Solitude, Utah

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 84525. The Survey maps it on the Green River NE quadrangle. It stands 4,403 feet above sea level.

Solitude within Grand County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Solitude between 1993 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
24 August 1997Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeBROWNSWASH
21 August 2002Smokingunder an acreMoab Field OfficeMM 167
6 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeJETTA
4 July 2002Smokingunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFLOY
4 July 2000Natural1.0 acresMoab Field OfficeMM 173
4 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeHIGHWAY
3 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeFLOY WASH
2 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field Office172

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Solitude: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Uranium. 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
Copper 1UraniumUnknownSurface
Desert RockManganeseProspect1917
Desert Rock MineManganesePast ProducerPyrolusite
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unknown #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grand 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
Floy5.0 miles23
Elgin7.0 miles24
Crescent Junction10.8 miles23
Brendel (historical)10.9 miles23
Thompson Springs16.2 miles22
Sego17.5 miles19
Vista18.1 miles22
Sagers22.3 miles22

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 Q116686599The 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 1437689. 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.