William Derby Johnson Jr. House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The William Derby Johnson, Jr., House is a historic house in Kanab, Utah. It was built in 1884-1885 for William Derby Johnson, Jr., a veteran of the Black Hawk War of 1865-1872 and a Mormon settler.”
Wikipedia article William Derby Johnson Jr. House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Kane County · listed in 2001 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Johnson, William Derby, Jr., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 54 S. Main St., Kanab, 84741
When was it listed? April 2001
Category. building
Also known as. Kanab, Utah MPS
Census division. Kanab
National Register reference number. 01000315 - 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of William Derby Johnson Jr. House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
7 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DUMPSTER DIVER
6 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	TRAIL CANYON
30 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	BIG LOG
30 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	WATER TANK
30 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	PORT
12 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LOST SPRING WASH
9 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	BUNTING
9 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CEDAR HEIGHTS

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of William Derby Johnson Jr. House: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Bottle Sand Mine	Stone	Producer
Buckskin Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Kanab Creek Road Junction Mine	Silica	Past Producer
Bottle Sand Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Surface/Underground
Kanab Creek Road Junction Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Quartz, Sand
Spring Hollow	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Anhydrite, Gypsum
Spring Hollow	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kanab, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 flood, 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
July 2017	Flash Flood	Kanab	$200,000	Heavy rain over Kanab produced widespread flash flooding across the town. Multiple businesses suffered flood damage and approximately 20 homes had some mud or water in their basements. Many roads were flooded, and one drainage canal suffered damage.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Kanab	$50,000	Flash flooding occurred in Johnson Canyon just east of Kanab, washing out a bridge and creating some road damage.
September 1998	Flash Flood	Kanab	$30,000	no account filed
September 1997	Flash Flood	Kanab	$30,000	no account filed
September 2023	Flash Flood	Kanab	$25,000	Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Kanab Visitor Center officials reported flash flooding in the town, with local streets flooded and covered with mud and debris, resulting in closure of a few streets. Creeks through town were overflowing across roads at culverts, and in one spot, Kanab Creek was overflowing across the road with water approximately 9 to 12 deep. Dirt roads on the outskirts of town were impassable. Additionally, Kane County Sheriff's office officials reported that several homes had some minor basement flooding. This flooding is the result of strong thunderstorms in the area, with Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor estimates of approximately 0.75 to 1.50 of rainfall in around 3 hours.
September 2004	Hail	Kanab	$20,000	no account filed
September 1997	Flood	Kanab	$5,000	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Kanab	$1,000	Flash flooding was reported in most canyon from Kanab to Lake Powell, with the heaviest flooding along Paria and Warm Creeks. Several roads were washed out.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	Heavy rain resulted in flash flooding in the city of Kanab. The water made several city roads impassable, and they were temporarily closed.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	A large flash flood was reported in Johnson Canyon, particularly in the upper drainage portion of the canyon.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	A flash flood was reported in lower Johnson Canyon after estimated rainfall of more than 2 inches.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	Flash flooding was reported in the Johnson Canyon area, as well as Lick Wash. In Lick Wash, hikers scrambled out of the wash for an hour and a half to get away from the flood waters.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	Flash flooding was reported in Johnson Canyon, with a park ranger in the area calling it an average-sized flash flood.
September 2011	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	A Kanab Visitor Center ranger reported a large flash flood in upper Johnson Canyon.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	3ft of water rushing through Buckskin Gulch...a slot canyon off the Paria River.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	Flash flood in the Paria River drainage damaged Cottonwood Road. Flow rate in the area increased from 2 CFS to 1054 CFS in one hour.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	Road to Whitehouse Campground washed out...near HWY 89.
October 2005	Flash Flood	Kanab	-	Road washed out in Hog Canyon
April 2005	Heavy Rain	Kanab	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Kanab	-	no account filed
October 1997	Hail	Kanab	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Kanab	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rider-Pugh House	under 500 feet	2001
Kanab Hotel and Cafe	under 500 feet	2003
Bowman-Chamberlain House	under 500 feet	1975
Kanab Post Office	0.1 miles	2011
Parry Lodge	0.2 miles	2003
Kanab (Union Pacific) Lodge	0.2 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000315 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kane County	All 13 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.