Sulphurdale, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Beaver census division. The Survey maps it on the Cove Fort quadrangle. It stands 6,214 feet above sea level.

Sulphurdale within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 Beaver quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Cove Fort quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Cove Fort quadrangle1:24000
2001 USGS Cove Fort quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Sulphurdale between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,497 acres in total. 53 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	BEAR
5 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	3 TREES
29 September 2008	Natural	80 acres	Fishlake National Forest	SULPHUR CREEK WFU
22 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	MM 2
19 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PINE CREEK
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	COVE CREEK
15 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Cedar City Field Office	MILE MARKER 129
13 September 2016	Natural	611 acres	Richfield Field Office	CINDER CONE

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Sulphurdale: 30 past producers, 6 producers, 6 prospects, 5 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Pumice. 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
Cove Fort Clay Deposit	Kaolin, Aluminum, Sulfur	Occurrence	Alunite
Forminco Claims	Sulfur, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Rainbow Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite, Sulfur	Past Producer	1946
Union Oil, Utah State 42-7 Well	Geothermal, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Cove Fort	Volcanic Materials	Producer	Cinders
Cove Fort Gravel Pit No. 10	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Surface
Unknown Prospect	Silica	Occurrence	Chert
Unknown Silica Prospect	Silica	Prospect
Forminco Claims	Sulfur, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Sulfur
Neal Flourspar Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Beaver 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
Cunningham Hill	13.6 miles	15
Manderfield	14.2 miles	15
North Creek	15.4 miles	17
Beaver	19.8 miles	15
Murdock	21.7 miles	13
Smyths	21.7 miles	13
Greenville	22.2 miles	15
Yellow Banks	23.5 miles	17

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 Sulphurdale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7636563	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 1446230. 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.