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St. Christopher's Episcopal Mission

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Christopher's Episcopal Mission is a historic Episcopal church 1.7 miles east of Bluff, Utah. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”

Wikipedia article St. Christopher's Episcopal Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. UT 163, Bluff, 84512
  • When was it listed? November 2002
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Blanding
  • Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 02001042 - 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

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of St. Christopher's Episcopal Mission between 1998 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined5
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2000Natural1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEVAPORATION
8 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficePUMP
6 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBLUFF
12 July 2018Natural1.2 acresSoutheast AreaBLUFF
8 June 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWATERMELON
17 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLD POND
14 June 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMoab Field OfficeFOOTBRIDGE
12 June 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMISSION

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of St. Christopher's Episcopal Mission: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Hole In Rock MineUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite
Hole In the RockUraniumOccurrence
Hole In the Rock MineUraniumPast ProducerSurface, Underground
Ike ThreeUraniumUnknownSurface
San JuanUraniumPast ProducerUnderground
Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Gravel Deposit #19038Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerQuartzite
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this property

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluff, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 flood. 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
September 2003Flash FloodBluff$1,000,000no account filed
August 2001Flash FloodBluff$30,000no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindBluff$12,000no account filed
August 2013Flash FloodBluff$10,000Rainfall through the day, with 1.85 inches recorded between 2 pm and 3 pm, produced flash flooding from the town of Bluff to Sand Island and along Highway 191. Sand bagging was needed in town to protect structures. Minor damage was reported.
June 2020HailBluff-A severe thunderstorm produced large hail measured to be the size of ping-pong balls in Bluff.
July 2018Heavy RainBluff-Thunderstorms produced 0.88 of an inch of rain within a couple of hours. Minor flooding was reported.
August 2016Heavy RainBluff-Near Bluff 0.50 of an inch of rain fell within a 10 minute period.
September 2012Debris FlowBluff-Heavy rainfall resulted in a flow of mud and water across Highway 191 approximately 8 miles north of Bluff.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBluff-Strong thunderstorm winds blew down some old trees and broke off large branches from other trees throughout the town of Bluff.
July 2008Heavy RainBluff-Minor flooding occurred around Bluff and covered a portion of Highway 163 about 3 miles east of Bluff. A spotter reported 0.53 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes.
October 1998Heavy RainBluff-A thunderstorm produced brief heavy rain in Bluff, with 0.50 inches falling in 15 minutes. This produced some minor street flooding.
September 2005Funnel CloudBluff-no account filed
August 2003Flash FloodBluff-no account filed
September 2002FloodBluff-no account filed
September 2002FloodBluff-no account filed
September 1997HailBluff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Jens Nielson House1.4 miles1982
John Albert Scorup House2.0 miles1983
Joseph Frederick Adams House2.0 miles1985
Bluff Historic District2.0 miles1995
Lemuel H. Redd Jr. House2.2 miles1983
James Bean Decker House2.4 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001042 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan CountyAll 23 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.