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Three Forks, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. It lies near Trail Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Flat Ridge quadrangle.

Three Forks within Wasatch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Three Forks between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,573 acres in total. 17 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
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 2009Natural6.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSUMMIT
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFLAT RIDGE
29 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestLONG RESERVATION
2 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTABBYUNE
17 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestWHITE RIVER
1 September 2012Naturalunder an acreAshley National ForestLONG RIDGE
3 August 2009Recreation and ceremony60 acresAshley National ForestTRAIL RIDGE
26 August 2007Natural35 acresAshley National ForestRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasatch 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
Soldier Summit7.2 miles22
Independence27.7 miles23
Wallsburg37.7 miles21
Timber Lakes37.7 miles22
Center Creek40.7 miles22
Soapstone Summer Home Area41.7 miles23
Daniel41.9 miles21
Charleston43.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1446562. 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.