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Topliff, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rush Valley census division. It lies near Poker Knoll. The Survey maps it on the Fivemile Pass quadrangle.

Topliff within Tooele County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Topliff between 1994 and 2020, burning about 33,629 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 September 2012Natural16 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeTOPLIFF
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeGRADE
1 September 1996Recreation and ceremony50 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeTOPLIFF
7 August 2001Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeTOPLIFT
7 August 2001Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeTHORP HILL
7 August 2001Natural1.5 acresSalt Lake Field Office7 MILE
6 August 2000Firearms and explosives use5,867 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeTENMILEPAS
3 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeGRAVEL PIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Topliff: 9 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
South Thorpe Hills AditCopperOccurrenceMalachite
South Topliff Hill ProspectsIronOccurrenceVein
North Topliff Hill Clay ProspectClayOccurrenceCalcite
Powder Knoll ProspectsLimestone, General, ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Rush Valley No. 1 Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Tenmile Pass Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Deseret Quarry No. 1Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerCalcite
Great Blue Prospect No. 1Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerCalcite
Great Blue Prospect No. 2Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerCalcite
Great Blue Prospect No. 3Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface

Every working 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
Pehrson8.0 miles17
Faust9.7 miles16
Lofgreen10.5 miles17
Mercur (historical)11.4 miles21
West Mercur11.5 miles23
Center11.9 miles22
Vernon12.5 miles17
Ophir14.9 miles23

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 Q122559327The 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 1437705. 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.