Bryce Canyon, Utah

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

• Administration Building, Oldlisted 1995
• Bryce Canyon Lodge Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1995
• Bryce Canyon National Park Scenic Trails Historic Districtlisted 1995
• Bryce Innlisted 1995
• Horse Barnlisted 1995
• Loop C Comfort Stationlisted 1995
• Loop D Comfort Stationlisted 1995
• National Park Service Housing, Old, Historic Districtlisted 1995
• Rainbow Point Comfort Station and Overlook Shelterlisted 1995
• Utah Parks Company Service Stationlisted 1995
• Riggs Spring Fire Traillisted 1995
• Under-the-Rim Traillisted 1995

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Bryce Canyon Lodge, Bryce Canyonfederal building survey, 37 photographs

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
• 1966 USGS Bryce Canyon quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Panguitch quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 2002 USGS Bryce Canyon quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Bryce Canyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 1 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:

• Bryce Canyon City
• Tropic

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Bryce Canyon: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bryce Canyon in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Garfield County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1439206. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.