White Rock Curve Village, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Casa del Eco Mesa-White Mesa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84534. It lies near White Mesa Mountain. The Survey maps it on the White Mesa Village quadrangle.

White Rock Curve Village within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1886 USGS Abajo quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Abajo quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Abajo quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS White Mesa Village quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1966 USGS Cortez quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Bluff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS White Mesa Village quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of White Rock Curve Village between 1995 and 2018, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
27 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	MONTEZUMA
13 July 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	MONTEZUMA CREEK 2
10 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	MONTEZUMA CREEK
7 June 1995	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	COYOTE
27 May 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	NTUA WATERLINE
11 April 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	B14
22 March 2018	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	MONTEZUMA CREEK
14 March 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	LONE MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of White Rock Curve Village: 2 past producers, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Quartzite, Sandstone
Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Deposit #19035	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartzite, Sandstone
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19035	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Red Lake Village	1.9 miles	19
Montezuma Creek	4.3 miles	20
White Mesa Village	5.4 miles	19
Aneth	5.6 miles	18
Bluff	14.6 miles	22
Little Water	15.6 miles	20
Tselakai Dezza	16.6 miles	20
White Mesa	19.8 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1434193. 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.