Wahsatch, Utah

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Coalville census division. The Survey maps it on the Wahsatch quadrangle. It stands 6,824 feet above sea level.

Wahsatch within Summit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Wahsatch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Wahsatch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wahsatch between 1996 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WASATCH 193 EAST
30 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	107 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	191 I-80
3 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SLAUGHTERHOUSE CREEK
28 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LITTLE RAIL
14 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WET TRACK
12 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	186 CASTLEROCK
6 August 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	192 SHOT
31 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	CRYSTAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Castle Rock

Every fire recorded in Summit 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
Castle Rock	7.7 miles	10
Emory	14.5 miles	10
Upton	17.5 miles	22
Echo Resort	22.7 miles	22
Echo	23.2 miles	22
Henefer	24.0 miles	10
Coalville	24.6 miles	22
Hoytsville	26.5 miles	24

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.

Wikipedia article on Wahsatch	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7959848	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 1437714. 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.