Widtsoe Junction, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Tropic census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84764. It lies near Escalante Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Flake Mountain East quadrangle. It stands 7,569 feet above sea level.

Widtsoe Junction within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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 Kanab quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Flake Mtn East quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Panguitch quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Widtsoe Junction between 1994 and 2020, burning about 54 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
Natural	30
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 September 1995	Natural	6.0 acres	Dixie National Forest	DRY CREEK
2 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	JOHNS VALLEY
13 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MUD SPRING
9 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	DRY CREEK
9 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	DRY CREEK
9 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	JOHN'S VALLEY
4 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	BIRCH CREEK
20 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	DIPPING VAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Widtsoe

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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 Widtsoe Junction: 4 past producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hunt Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Hunt Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 09026	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #09026	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel

Every working recorded in Garfield 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
Widtsoe	0.4 miles	16
Osiris	13.4 miles	17
Bryce Canyon City	13.6 miles	15
Tropic	14.8 miles	15
Bryce Canyon	16.5 miles	15
Cannonville	18.4 miles	16
Henrieville	18.5 miles	15
Antimony	19.7 miles	17

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 Q122546465

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 1447330. 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.