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Verdure, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84535. It lies near Bull Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Monticello South quadrangle. It stands 6,765 feet above sea level.

Verdure within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

118 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Verdure between 1993 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 88 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
Natural88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1995Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeHALFWAY
6 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreManti-Lasal National ForestBLUE WHEEL
6 September 1993Naturalunder an acreManti-Lasal National Forestnot named
27 September 2008Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFRANCES
25 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSMOKEY
2 September 1996Naturalunder an acreManti-Lasal National ForestEVIL
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeBARTON
18 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLONG CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Verdure: 6 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vanadium, Uranium. 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
LifterVanadium, UraniumOccurrenceUnknown
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 19023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Blue Eagle # 1Uranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite
Blue Eagle # 6Uranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Roscoelite
WheelerUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Roscoelite
Blue Eagle 1UraniumUnknownUnderground
Blue Eagle 6UraniumUnknownUnderground
LifterUraniumUnknownUnderground
WheelerUraniumPast ProducerUnderground

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verdure in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 tornado. 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 2024Tornado (EFU)Verdure-One of several thunderstorms across Southeast Utah on the afternoon of July 20th began to rotate and produced a landspout tornado near Verdure in San Juan County, UT, along US Highway 191. This landspout was reported to the Grand Junction NWS office by a trained spotter, and this report was later confirmed by images and video provided by a media partner in the Salt Lake City NWS office's area.

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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
Monticello5.9 miles20
Eastland11.4 miles21
Blanding13.1 miles21
Ucolo15.9 miles21
Indian Village17.4 miles27
White Mesa23.0 miles20
Montezuma Creek35.6 miles20
Bluff36.2 miles22

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 Q116686557The 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 1446923. 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.