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Watchman Residential Area, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Hurricane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84767. It stands on Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Springdale East quadrangle.

Watchman Residential Area within Washington County

On record in Watchman Residential Area

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 within a mile 10 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Watchman Residential Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. 99 started naturally. 5 were 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
Natural99
Recreation and ceremony27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning5
Fireworks5
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2011Naturalunder an acreZion National ParkPETRIFIED
8 September 1997Naturalunder an acreZion National ParkMOKI
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreZion National ParkTIN ROOF
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreZion National ParkOAK CREEK
3 September 2011Natural196 acresZion National ParkHERBS
3 September 2006Naturalunder an acreZion National ParkCOUNTY FIRE
3 September 2006Naturalunder an acreZion National ParkWYLIE
28 September 2008Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDOUBLE TREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Oak Creek Residential Area0.6 miles16
Springdale1.4 miles16
Shunesburg3.1 miles16
Zion Lodge3.5 miles16
Rockville4.2 miles16
Grafton5.9 miles16
Apple Valley11.0 miles17
Virgin11.0 miles15

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 Q122549467The 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 1450543. 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.