Murray Downtown Residential Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Murray Downtown Residential Historic District is the best representative area of the residential settlement and development of the city of Murray, Utah, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article Murray Downtown Residential Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by 4800 South, Clark St., Vine St. and Center St., Murray, 84107
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. district
Also known as. Murray City, Utah MPS; Murray City, Utah MPS
Census division. Salt Lake City
National Register reference number. 04001566 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Murray Downtown Residential Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined	6
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	POLE CAT
5 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	MILLVILLE CANYON
31 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BINGHAM ASSIST
2 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CANYON COVE
9 July 2019	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
4 July 1998	Fireworks	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	WASATCH
3 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OLYMPUS
12 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	UNION ASSIST

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 76 workings within 5 miles of Murray Downtown Residential Historic District: 42 producers, 26 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 42 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
Alta Champion	Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth	Producer	Vein
Cottonwood Clay Pits	Clay	Producer
Dry Fork Mine	Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Midvale Minerals Co	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.	Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic	Producer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.	Lead, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
New England	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
New York & Great Western Mining, Smelting, and Development Company	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Onyx Ranch	Gemstone	Producer	Onyx
Spring and Summit	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murray, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Murray	$250,000	Power lines were snapped in Murray, with multiple large trees uprooted throughout town. Carport and car damage occurred, as did damage to business signs and rooftops.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Murray	$5,000	Extensive roof damage from large tree on house.
August 1993	Hail	Murray	$5,000	Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles.
August 1993	Hail	Murray	$500	Shortly after the above thunderstorms moved out of the area, new thunderstorms redeveloped in the same area. Again, the remainder of the county was hardly touched. In Sandy, the hail piled up to a depth of 2 inches. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles. These thunderstorms also had frequent lightning. Lightning that struck a tree in Draper caused a very large branch to fall on some cars in a church parking lot. The damage to the cars was $30,000. The electric current from a nearby lightning strike worked its way into a house in Sandy destroying a television set. Brief heavy rainfall from these thunderstorms caused minor urban flooding.
June 2023	Hail	Murray	-	One inch hail was reported in Murray.
August 2011	Hail	Murray	-	Hail with a diameter of approximately 0.75 inches was observed near Murray.
August 2006	Heavy Rain	Murray	-	Heavy rain fell along the eastern Salt Lake Valley, 1-1.3" in an hour fell from Murray to East MIllcreek.

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
Warenski-Duvall Comerical Building and Apartments	0.3 miles	2000
Iris Theater, Apartments and Commercial Building	0.3 miles	2001
Edward and Irene Hobbs House	0.3 miles	2018
Rawsel and Jane Bradford House	0.4 miles	2015
John P. Cahoon House	0.4 miles	1983
Murray Downtown Historic District	0.5 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001566 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.