Echo Post Office

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1928.

Sources: 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3455 S. Echo rd., Echo, 84024
When was it listed? August 2003
Category. building
Census division. Coalville
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 03000159 - 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Echo Post Office between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,626 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Railroad operations and maintenance	27
Debris and open burning	26
Natural	24
Recreation and ceremony	17
Fireworks	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	2

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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	169 ECHO
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PJ FIRE
5 September 2014	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	84 RAIL
5 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	RAIL
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northeast Area	ECHO DAM
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	586 acres	Northeast Area	TERVELS
3 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HAMS CANYON ASSIST
3 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WIRE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Echo Post Office: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Arthur Fork	Uranium	Occurrence	Vein
Devil S Slide Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Anderton Clay Pits	Clay	Producer	1913
Anderton Mine	Clay	Producer
South Echo Utah Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
South Echo Utah Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept of Highways Pit No. 22070	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut State Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 22055	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut. Dept of Hwys Pit No 22055	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. of Hwys Pit No 22015	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Echo Church and School	0.2 miles	1989
Echo School	0.3 miles	1997
Thomas L. Allen House	4.8 miles	1982
Boyden Block	4.9 miles	2009
Summit County Courthouse	4.9 miles	1978
John Boyden House	5.1 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000159 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit County	All 111 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.