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Mary Ellen Parmley House

Built in 1898. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Mary Ellen Parmley House, at 8850 S. 220 East in Sandy, Utah, is a one-story, wood-frame house built originally around 1898 as a Hall-Parlor cottage. It has had several additions on its west side.”

Wikipedia article Mary Ellen Parmley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1898.

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.
  • Listed as. Parmley, Mary Ellen, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 5580 S 220 E, Sandy, 84070
  • When was it listed? November 2000
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Sandy City MPS
  • Census division. Salt Lake City
  • When was it built? 1898
  • National Register reference number. 00001301 - 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 Mary Ellen Parmley House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTONYA
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSIENNA
31 August 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBINGHAM ASSIST
5 July 1994Natural1.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCOLD SPRING
7 June 1997Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMURDOCK
29 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRIVER
21 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands963 W MOGUL PEAK RD
2 March 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands1086 E DRAPER PKY

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Mary Ellen Parmley House: 15 producers, 10 past producers, 6 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Subsurface BrinesBromineProducer1914, 1917
Beehive Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beehive Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cottonwood Heights Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Draper Gravel Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Draper Gravel Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Draper Gravel Pit No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Reynold's Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reynolds Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake 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

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001301 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Salt Lake CountyAll 399 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.