San Juan 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
	Joseph Frederick Adams House	building	1985	85003390
	Bluff Historic District	district	1995	95001273
	Cave Springs Cowboy Camp	site	1988	88001233
	James Bean Decker House	building	1983	83003180
	Edge of Cedars Indian Ruin	site	1971	71000853
	Goulding's Trading Post	building	1980	80003941
	Hyland Hotel	building	1994	94000785
	Indian Creek State Park	site	1976	76001833
	Frederick Issac and Mary M. Jones House	building	2003	03000154
	Julien Inscription	site	1988	88001248
	Kirk's Cabin Complex	district	1988	88001252
	Lost Canyon Cowboy Camp	site	1988	88001232
	Murphy Trail and Bridge	district	1988	88001236
	Natural Bridges National Monument Visitor Center	building	2023	100009283
	Navajo Mountain Day School and Community Center Historic District	district	2021	100006063
	Neck and Cabin Springs Grazing Area	building	2009	09001108
	Jens Nielson House	building	1982	82004155
	Oljato Trading Post	building	1980	80003939
	Owachomo Bridge Trail	structure	1989	88001166
	Lemuel H. Redd Jr. House	building	1983	83003181
	John Albert Scorup House	building	1983	83003182
	St. Christopher's Episcopal Mission	building	2002	02001042
	Swallow's Nest	building	1996	96000164

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 30,129 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: 3,318 of them, burning about 52,920 acres. 2,676 started naturally and 24 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 217 reports for this county, causing 1 death, 1 injury and about $2,215,700 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 1,311 workings inside this county. 111 still produce and 1,200 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.