Yellow Banks, Utah

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 Beaver quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Ranch Canyon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Yellow Banks between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,520 acres in total. 13 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Milford
• Blueacre
• Frisco
• Murdock

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Yellow Banks: 17 past producers, 9 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Iron, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Beaver County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437728. 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.