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Timpie, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dugway-Wendover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84029. The Survey maps it on the Timpie quadrangle.

Timpie within Tooele County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Timpie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,540 acres in total. 30 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Natural30
Firearms and explosives use21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBURNT SPRINGS
6 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeBURNTSPRNG
4 September 2011Firearms and explosives use6.8 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeTIMPIE
3 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorthwest AreaPICKELWEED
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest AreaULTRALIGHT
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeWIRE
23 September 1992Natural30 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeTEDDY BEAR
2 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeBURNT SPR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Timpie: 14 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Bromine, Dolomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown PlantBrominePast Producer
Utah Lime and StoneDolomiteProducer
Dolomite QuarryLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Flux QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Gravel Pit 23064Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel Pit No 23062Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel Pit No 23065Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Timpie Gravel Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Timpie Gravel Pit1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23059Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Timpie in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTimpie-The I-80 @ mp 78 mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 60 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTimpie-A wind gust of 62 mph was recorded at the I-80 at mile post 78 mesonet site.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTimpie-A peak wind gust of 66 mph was recorded by the I-80 @ mp 78 mesonet station.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTimpie-Three semitrailers were blow over between mileposts 77 and 79 on Interstate 80.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindTimpie-The I-80 @ mp 78 sensor recorded a peak gust of 62 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTimpie-A sensor near I-80, north of the Stansbury Mountains, recorded a peak wind gust of 64 mph.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindTimpie-The UDOT I-80 @ mp 78 sensor recorded a maximum wind gust of 75 mph.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindTimpie-A 62 mph wind gust was recorded at the I-80 UDOT sensor at mile post 78.

Every storm recorded in Tooele 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
Dolomite5.3 miles16
Delle6.5 miles14
Flux7.1 miles16
Burmester11.5 miles15
Grantsville14.4 miles15
Iosepa (historical)15.2 miles17
Low15.3 miles14
Marshall17.2 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122559519The 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 1437704. 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.

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.