Centerfield School and Meetinghouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Centerfield School and Meetinghouse, also known as the Centerfield Rock Church, is a historic structure located at 140 S. Built between 1886 and 1889, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.”
Wikipedia article Centerfield School and Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 140 S. Main St., Centerfield, 84622
When was it listed? September 2000
Category. building
Also known as. Mormon Church Buildings in Utah MPS
Census division. Gunnison
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number. 00001068 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Centerfield School and Meetinghouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LITTLE TIJUANA
11 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	JOHANSEN CONSTRUCTION
8 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SUGAR FACTORY LANE
7 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SANPITCH RIVER
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LUND FIRE
28 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CUFC 16
24 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DRILL RIG
23 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HANSEN LANE

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Centerfield School and Meetinghouse: 22 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Stone, Dimension, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gunnison Limestone Prospects	Stone	Past Producer
Gunnison Limestone Prospects	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence	Limestone
Gunnison Sec. 5 Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence	Calcite
Mayfield Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Mayfield Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Northern Bentonite Pit	Bentonite	Past Producer	Bentonite
Redmond Hills Bentonite Pit No.2	Bentonite	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
East Centerfield Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Gravel Hills Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centerfield, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2015	Flash Flood	Centerfield	$100,000	Heavy rain caused widespread flash flooding in the cities of Gunnison and Centerfield, with an approximate total of 30 homes and businesses sustaining some damage from the flood waters. About another 100 homes experienced yard flooding. Most damaged homes had minor damage to basements or lower levels. In addition, portions of the Gunnison Market grocery store were flooded, and some of the inventory was damaged.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Centerfield	-	The Centerfield mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 58 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Centerfield	-	Flash flooding was reported in Centerfield, particularly over Clarion Road, with flowing water temporarily making the road impassible.
September 2002	Tornado (F0)	Centerfield	-	An F0 tornado was spotted on the ground for a short time over open country 5 miles NNE of Centerfield.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
James and Caroline M. Metcalf House	1.6 miles	1998
Casino Theatre	2.1 miles	1989
Oberg-Metcalf House	2.2 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001068 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete County	All 83 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.
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.