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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 20 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.
- 1886 USGS Abajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Abajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Abajo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Verdure 2 SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Blanding quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Monticello South quadrangle1:24000
- 2001 USGS Monticello South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
118 since 1993Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 88 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | HALFWAY |
| 6 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Manti-Lasal National Forest | BLUE WHEEL |
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Manti-Lasal National Forest | not named |
| 27 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | FRANCES |
| 25 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SMOKEY |
| 2 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Manti-Lasal National Forest | EVIL |
| 18 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | BARTON |
| 18 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LONG CANYON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lifter | Vanadium, Uranium | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19023 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 19023 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Blue Eagle # 1 | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | Carnotite | |
| Blue Eagle # 6 | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | Carnotite, Roscoelite | |
| Wheeler | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | Carnotite, Roscoelite | |
| Blue Eagle 1 | Uranium | Unknown | Underground | |
| Blue Eagle 6 | Uranium | Unknown | Underground | |
| Lifter | Uranium | Unknown | Underground | |
| Wheeler | Uranium | Past Producer | Underground |
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Tornado (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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monticello | 5.9 miles | 20 | |
| Eastland | 11.4 miles | 21 | |
| Blanding | 13.1 miles | 21 | |
| Ucolo | 15.9 miles | 21 | |
| Indian Village | 17.4 miles | 27 | |
| White Mesa | 23.0 miles | 20 | |
| Montezuma Creek | 35.6 miles | 20 | |
| Bluff | 36.2 miles | 22 |
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 Q116686557 | 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 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.












