Van, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Delta census division. The Survey maps it on the Sunstone Knoll quadrangle.

Van within Millard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1885 USGS Sevier Desert quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Sunstone Knoll quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Delta quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Van between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,410 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	STYLER FARM
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	RIVER BANK
6 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MOODY FARM
5 August 2020	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Central Area	MUD FORT
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Area	257
22 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OASIS
15 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FORT DESERET
30 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42 acres	Richfield Field Office	DOME TOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Millard 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 Van: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit 14074	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
	Utah Dept. of Highways Borrow Pit #14074	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Millard 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Deseret	4.0 miles	16
Oasis	4.9 miles	16
Hinckley	6.5 miles	16
Clear Lake	8.6 miles	13
Delta	9.7 miles	16
Sutherland	11.1 miles	16
Harding	11.6 miles	16
Abraham	11.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437711. 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.