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Upton, Utah

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Coalville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84017. It stands on Huff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Upton quadrangle. It stands 6,165 feet above sea level.

Upton within Summit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Upton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,494 acres in total. 18 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
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsKNOB
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMOORE
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTURNER HOLLOW
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeECHO CREEK RANCH
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPORCUPINE 2
27 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsELK HORN
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCLARK CANYON
22 September 2012Natural2.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPINEVIEW 8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Upton: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Utah Highway Dept 22003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Highway Dept. 22003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upton in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 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
August 2022Flash FloodUpton$1,000A Summit County official reported a foot of water and some gravel spilled out onto Chalk Creek Road.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindUpton-The Clarks Canyon 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.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Emory6.9 miles10
Coalville9.2 miles22
Echo Resort9.3 miles22
Hoytsville9.8 miles24
Castle Rock10.4 miles10
Echo11.1 miles22
Wanship13.9 miles24
Henefer14.4 miles10

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 UptonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104870837The 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 1437709. 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.