Box Elder County, Utah

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Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph	Property	Type	Listed	Reference
	George and Mabel Anderson House	building	2014	14000862
	Martin Anderson House	building	2003	02001735
	Bear River High School Science Building	building	1985	85000797
	Box Elder County Courthouse	building	1988	88000399
	Box Elder Flouring Mill	building	1990	89000452
	Box Elder Stake Tabernacle	building	1971	71000840
	Brigham City Carnegie Library	building	1984	84000143
	Brigham City Fire Station/City Hall	building	1988	88000389
	Brigham City Historic District	district	2023	100008770
	Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association Mercantile Store	building	1990	89000453
	Central Pacific Railroad Grade Historic District	district	1987	87000699
	Alma Compton House	building	1988	88000381
	Corinne Methodist Episcopal Church	building	1971	71000842
	Cutler Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District	district	1989	89000280
	Elberta Theatre	building	1991	91001544
	Alfred and Marie Fawson House	building	2003	02001736
	Peter and Anna Christena Forsgren House	building	2003	02001737
	Fryer Hotel	building	1988	88000379
	Garland Carnegie Library	building	1984	84000146
	William and Nettie Glover House	building	2000	00001587
	Golden Spike National Historic Site	site	1966	66000080
	Granary of the Relief Society	building	1990	89000455
	Hampton's Ford Stage Stop and Barn	district	1971	71000841
	Holmgren Farmstead	building	2001	01000319
	Christian and Annie Holst House	building	2003	02001738
	Hotel Brigham	building	1991	91001543
	Howard Hotel	building	1994	94001209
	Nels and Minnie Jenson House	building	2000	00001588
	Jeppson-Reeder House	building	2003	03000082
	Knudson Brothers Building	building	1992	92000893
	Jonathan and Jennie Knudson House	building	2000	00001583
	Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Building	building	1996	96001530
	Oregon Short Line Depot	building	1992	92000891
	Planing Mill of Brigham City Mercantile and Manufacturing Association	building	1990	89000454
	Plymouth School	building	1986	86000733
	Southern Pacific Railroad: Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off Trestle	structure	1972	72001257
	Spiral Jetty	site	2024	100011066
	A. N. Tanner House	building	1982	82004107
	Thompson-Hansen House	building	1994	94001474
	Transcontinental Railroad Grade	structure	1994	94001423
	Tremonton Historic District	district	2021	100006013
	Union Block	building	1991	91001545
	Washakie LDS Ward Chapel	building	1998	98000641
	William L. and Mary Watkins House	building	2001	01000471
	Willard Historic District	district	1974	74001933

Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 53 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 8,668 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 48 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 1,511 of them, burning about 542,734 acres. 629 started naturally and 36 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 289 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 11 injuries and about $8,314,890 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 1,062 workings inside this county. 143 still produce and 919 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.