Valley Side Circle, Utah
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the South Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84010. It lies near Hooper Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lake City North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1925 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000
- 1928 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Salt Lake City North quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salt Lake City North quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1980 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Salt Lake City North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
40 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Valley Side Circle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 890 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | 50 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | CITY CREEK |
| 2 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BURNHAM |
| 14 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | SMOKE CHASER |
| 11 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | ENSIGN PEAK |
| 6 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ENSIGN INCORPORATED |
| 30 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 365 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | GUN RANGE |
| 29 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 56 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | BOUNTIFUL |
| 24 August 2006 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | CITY CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 37 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Valley Side Circle: 26 producers, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 26 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Limestone, General, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home and Wood Pit | Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Spring Gulch Quarry | Iron | Occurrence | Hematite, Limonite | |
| Victory Road Lime Pit. | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| Becks Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Wasatch 8ot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| A-1 Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| A-1 Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Beck Street Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Breitling Brothers N. Salt Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gardner Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballard Avenues | 0.1 miles | 27 | |
| Valley Side | 0.1 miles | 27 | |
| Sundown | 0.2 miles | 27 | |
| Odell Acres | 0.2 miles | 27 | |
| Sconberg | 0.2 miles | 27 | |
| Castle | 0.3 miles | 27 | |
| Sycamore | 0.3 miles | 27 | |
| North Salt Lake | 0.3 miles | 27 |
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 Q122567652 | The 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 1453667. 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.









