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Sunnyside, 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 84539. It lies near Whitmore Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyside quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 6,414 feet above sea level.

Sunnyside 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 Sunnyside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,744 acres in total. 29 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
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10

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
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
27 August 2009Natural2.6 acresMoab Field OfficeBRUIN POINT
21 August 2002Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeA CANYON
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined107 acresSoutheast AreaWATER CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2002Flash FloodSunnyside$500,000A cloudburst (1.48 inches in an hour) produced flash flooding in Sunnyside. City Hall was flooded with water up to 3 feet deep, and numerous homes and businesses were flooded.

Every storm 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
Upper Sunnyside1.3 miles20
Sunnydale1.4 miles20
East Carbon City1.5 miles20
Dragerton (historical)1.9 miles20
Columbia (historical)2.4 miles20
Columbia Junction3.3 miles20
Bruin Point6.6 miles20
Sunnyside Junction10.0 miles18

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 SunnysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483005The 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 1433066. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.