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Sunnydale, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Carbon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84520. It lies near Water Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyside quadrangle.

Sunnydale within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Sunnydale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 718 acres in total. 24 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
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresMoab Field OfficeBIG ROCK
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficePATMOS
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSUNNYSIDE
10 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeWATER CANYON
7 August 2014Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeTANK
30 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeFAN
29 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMoab Field OfficeSHOULDER
21 August 2002Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeA CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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
East Carbon City1.2 miles20
Dragerton (historical)1.3 miles20
Sunnyside1.4 miles20
Columbia (historical)1.5 miles20
Columbia Junction2.3 miles20
Upper Sunnyside2.7 miles20
Bruin Point8.0 miles20
Sunnyside Junction9.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1436449. 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.