Wildwood, Utah

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ogden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84401. It stands on Goodale Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntsville quadrangle.

Wildwood within Weber County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Wildwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,679 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Natural	36
Recreation and ceremony	31
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	5
Fireworks	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
6 September 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	35 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	TAYLOR CANYON
5 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MIDDLE INLET PICNIC
5 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	59 OGDEN CYN
5 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LEWIS PEAK
30 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SKYLAND
3 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FARMINGTON FLAT
3 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	AJ CREEK
26 September 1992	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weber County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Wildwood: 9 prospects, 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Geothermal, Clay. 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
Ogden Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Radford Clay Deposit	Clay	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Radford Clay Deposit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Norman Fluorspar Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1953, 1957
Norman Fluorspar Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Norman Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Norman Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1953
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29007	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29008	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29024	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Weber 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
Ogden Canyon Wildwood Estates	0.1 miles	12
Hermitage	0.7 miles	14
Fairmount	1.8 miles	14
Fairmont	2.0 miles	14
Carr	2.3 miles	14
Spurlock	2.4 miles	12
Pine View West	2.7 miles	12
Big Sky Estates	3.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1434290. 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.