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Washakie, Utah

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Howell-Snowville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84331. The Survey maps it on the Portage quadrangle. It stands 4,380 feet above sea level.

Washakie within Box Elder County

On record in Washakie

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Washakie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,082 acres in total. 30 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
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
5 September 2002Natural200 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBROAD CANYON
3 September 2008Debris and open burning100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWASAKIE
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWASHAKIE
20 September 2009Natural21 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestNIEL
2 September 2003Natural26 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJOHNSON CANYON
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBear River AreaWESTERN METAL
1 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPORTAGE CANYON ENTRANCE
9 August 1998Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestELGROVE SPRING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Washakie: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 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
Briggs & Box Elder CountySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Briggs and Box Elder Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J. Allen #02045 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
J.Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Limekiln Knoll GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Limekiln Knoll GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
N. Nish & Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
N.Nish & Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R. Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
R.Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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
Portage2.2 miles10
Plymouth6.1 miles10
Fielding10.4 miles10
Riverside11.3 miles9
Wheelon11.7 miles10
Beaver Dam12.5 miles10
Collinston13.4 miles10
Blue Creek13.9 miles9

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 WashakieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16902926The 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 1447016. 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.