West Jordan, 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 3 records

• Gardner Milllisted 1982
• West Jordan Ward Meetinghouselisted 1995
• Utah-Idaho Sugar Factory

Surveyed buildings and structures 6 records

• Ray R. Jones Farmstead, 2195 West 9000 Street, West Jordanfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• Ray R. Jones Farmstead, Garage, 22 feet South-southeast of Residence, West Jordanfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Ray R. Jones Farmstead, Hay Barn & Stable, 30 feet South of Garage, West Jordanfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Ray R. Jones Farmstead, Salt Box Chicken Coop, 65 feet south-southeast of Residence, West Jordanfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Ray R. Jones Farmstead, Tankhouse, 18 feet north of Salt Box Chicken Coop, West Jordanfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Ray R. Jones Farmstead, Two Story Chicken Coop, 20 feet east of Residence, West Jordanfederal building survey, 1 photograph

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 Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
• 1925 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000
• 1928 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Midvale quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Midvale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1980 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1999 USGS Midvale 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 11 fires within 5 miles of West Jordan between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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:

• Bennion (historical)
• Kearns
• Taylorsville
• Welby
• Atwood
• Granger

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of West Jordan: 29 producers, 28 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 29 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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 Salt Lake County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Jordan in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 Salt Lake 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 1434086. 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.