Thermo, Utah

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Milford-Minersville census division. The Survey maps it on the Thermo quadrangle.

Thermo within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Thermo quadrangle1:62500
1980 USGS Wah Wah Mts. South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Thermo quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Thermo between 2003 and 2020, burning about 1,197 acres in total. 6 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	6
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
24 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	CROWN
24 August 2006	Natural	38 acres	Cedar City Field Office	FLAT 4
12 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Cedar City Field Office	PIG
8 July 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	THERMO
29 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	BLUE MOUNTAIN
29 July 2006	Natural	285 acres	Cedar City Field Office	FLATS 3
29 July 2006	Natural	867 acres	Cedar City Field Office	FLATS 2
30 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	BIG WASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaver 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 Thermo: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Uranium. 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
Surprise Group	Uranium	Occurrence
Termo Known Geothermal Resource	Geothermal	Occurrence
Thermo Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Ninemile Knoll Gravel Pit #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ninemile Knoll Gravel Pit No.4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Thermo Gravel Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

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
Laho	4.6 miles	10
Cook Corner	8.6 miles	10
Shauntie	8.7 miles	9
Upton	9.4 miles	10
Shenendoah City	9.7 miles	9
Minersville	13.1 miles	17
Milford	15.2 miles	11
Frisco	17.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437701. 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.