BlockFrom the record
One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2004 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Riverton Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The listing
- Address. Roughly 12300 S. Redwood Rd. to 12600 S. Redwood Rd., Riverton, 84065
- When was it listed? January 2004
- Category. district
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- National Register reference number. 03001484 - 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 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Riverton Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TONYA |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PRESERVE |
| 29 August 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SPRINGVIEW ASSIST |
| 9 July 2006 | Natural | 25 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | TRAVERSE MTN |
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | COLD SPRING |
| 26 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HARDMAN |
| 24 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WAGON WHEEL |
| 2 July 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SOUTH MOUNTAIN ASSIST |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 24 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Riverton Historic District: 12 producers, 9 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Bromine. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Subsurface Brines | Bromine | Producer | 1914, 1917 | |
| Bluffdale Sw Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Maple Hollow Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Olivers Siding Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | 1982 | |
| Point of the Mountain Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Salt Lake County Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | 1981 | |
| Unidentifie Occurrence | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Unidentified Occurrence | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Unidentified Occurrence | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this property
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverton, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 hail, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Riverton | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Riverton | - | One inch diameter hail was reported near Draper. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Riverton | - | Penny sized hail was reported in Riverton. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Riverton | - | A member of the public in Riverton reported penny-size hail. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Riverton | - | Hail estimated to be 0.75 inches in diameter was reported near Riverton. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Riverton | - | One inch diameter hail was reported near Riverton. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Riverton | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Riverton Elementary School | 0.6 miles | 1996 |
| Beckstead-Butterfield House | 0.9 miles | 2021 | |
 | Draper-Steadman House | 1.5 miles | 1992 |
| Garside-McMullin House | 2.3 miles | 1982 | |
| Samuel and Geneva Holt Farmstead | 2.6 miles | 2001 | |
 | Albert and Celestine Mabey House | 2.9 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03001484 in Record Group 79. |
| Salt Lake County | All 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.
- 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.