Wattis, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Price census division. The Survey maps it on the Wattis quadrangle. It stands 7,458 feet above sea level.

Wattis within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1885 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
1923 USGS Scofield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1925 USGS Scofield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Wattis quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Nephi quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
2001 USGS Wattis quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Wattis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 31 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
Natural	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Other causes	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	SERVICEBERRY
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	REDBAG
4 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	WATTIS
26 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	POWER LINE
14 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WATTIS
10 September 2016	Natural	35 acres	Moab Field Office	RANGE CREEK
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	NORTH SPRINGS
8 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	SPOILED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wattis: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Wiregrass & Wattis Benches	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
	Wiregrass and Wattis Benches Gravel Deposits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Carbon 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
Wattis Junction	1.3 miles	19
Hiawatha	3.2 miles	20
Coal City	9.4 miles	20
Wildcat	9.8 miles	18
Clear Creek	10.7 miles	20
Carbonville	11.5 miles	19
Price	11.9 miles	19
Consumers	12.0 miles	20

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 Wattis	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q63490511	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 1447080. 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.