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Villa Moritz, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the North Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84015. The Survey maps it on the Roy quadrangle.

Villa Moritz within Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Villa Moritz between 1993 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Fireworks2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5145 AIRPORT RD
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEBER RIVER
23 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMM339 I-15
8 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPETERSON
4 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUINTAH FIRE
31 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILLARD NO PIT
31 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsKEITH
30 August 2020Natural7.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGOLF ASSIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Villa Moritz: 18 prospects, 5 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences. 5 still produce. 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
Clarence Waterfall Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
South Weber Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #06002Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Davis 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
Sunset Square0.1 miles14
Sunset0.2 miles14
Morby Park0.3 miles14
Terry Dale0.3 miles14
White0.4 miles14
Fawcett0.4 miles14
Murdock0.4 miles14
Heather Heights0.5 miles14

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 Q122550383The 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 1451463. 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.