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Leander Lemmon House

Built in 1901. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The Leander Lemmon House, at 45 West Center in Huntington, Utah, was built around 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”

Wikipedia article Leander Lemmon House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Emery County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1901.

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. Lemmon, Leander, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 45 West Center, Huntington, 84528
  • When was it listed? September 2002
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Castle Dale-Huntington
  • When was it built? 1901
  • National Register reference number. 02001040 - 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Leander Lemmon House between 1998 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDUMP 2
20 August 2017Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands900 WEST
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeMISSION LANE
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast AreaGAME FARM
26 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeNORTH RESERVOIR
25 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSoutheast AreaOTTESON HOLLOW
8 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHUNTINGTON
7 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRAILER

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Leander Lemmon House: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Huntington Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Huntington Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huntington Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Huntington Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
The Gumhill Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
The Gumhill, Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Emery County

Storms near this property

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntington, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 debris flow, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Flash FloodHuntington$3,000UDOT reported two flash floods the Trail Mountain Fire burn scar flowed across state Route 31 between milepost 40 and milepost 44.
August 2022Flash FloodHuntington-A debris flow from the Trail Mountain Fire burn scar was observed on Huntington Creek near the Huntington Power Plant.
July 2021Tornado (EFU)Huntington-LANDSPOUT. A video and photos of a landspout tornado near Hungtington was sent to local broadcast media near Huntington.
July 2015Debris FlowHuntington-Heavy rain over the Seeley Fire burn scar caused flash flooding and debris flows onto State Route 31.
August 2013Flash FloodHuntington-Heavy rain caused a flash flood on Huntington Creek and a debris flow off of the Seeley Fire burn scar. Flooding impacted the Huntington Power Plant, with water having to be diverted around the plant. Logs, mud, and rocks were in the river as it passed the power plant.
August 2013Debris FlowHuntington-A debris flow occurred off of the Seeley Fire burn scar, covering State Route 31 with mud, and producing significant rises on Huntington Creek.
August 2011HailHuntington-The Emery County Dispatch reported hail with a diameter of 1 inch in Huntington.
September 2009HailHuntington-A trained spotter reported one inch hail near Huntington, Utah.

Every storm recorded in Emery 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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Huntington Tithing Granary0.4 miles1985
Huntington Roller Mill and Miller's House0.8 miles1979
Lars Peter Larson House6.5 miles1980
Peter Johansen House7.5 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001040 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emery CountyAll 16 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.