Carter Road

Built in 1881. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Carter Road, also known as the Carter Trail or the Carter Military Road, in Utah and Wyoming, was built in 1881 by the U.S. A portion of the trail in Ashley National Forest, running through Uintah County and Daggett County, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”
Wikipedia article Carter Road (Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Uintah County · listed in 2001 · category: District · built in 1881.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Ashley National Forest, Ashley National Forest, 84078
When was it listed? May 2001
Category. district
Census division. Vernal
When was it built? 1881
National Register reference number. 00000354 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Carter Road between 1994 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 3 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	MILK JUG
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	SIMS
2 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	TROUT CREEK
11 August 2002	Natural	153 acres	Ashley National Forest	BROWNIE
18 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	not named
9 October 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	BROWNIE CANYON
8 October 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	MARSH BENCH
12 October 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	SPLIT CREEK

Every fire recorded in Uintah County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000354 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Uintah County	All 17 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.