First National Bank of Layton

Built in 1905 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The First National Bank of Layton was a locally owned and operated bank in Layton, Utah. The bank was established in 1905 when the founders pooled together $25,000 to open a community bank.”
Wikipedia article First National Bank of Layton, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 70 National Register listings published here for Davis County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1905, Victorian architecture, by William Allen.

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.
Address. 50 W. Gentile St., Layton, 84041
When was it listed? April 2006
Category. building
Census division. North Davis
When was it built? 1905
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
Architect. William Allen
National Register reference number. 06000232 - 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of First National Bank of Layton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,306 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Fireworks	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	FERNWOOD
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SNOW CREEK
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	FRUIT
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	DANIELS CANYON
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FARMINGTON BAY
23 September 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not named
2 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	128 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SNOQUALMIE
16 September 2019	Natural	365 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	FRANCIS

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of First National Bank of Layton: 15 prospects, 9 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone, Copper. 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
Upper Baer Canyon Workings	Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Hobbs Reservoir Talc Locality	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Unknown
Unknown	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence
Mountain Road Gravel Pit.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
South Weber Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Davis County

Storms near this property

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Layton, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2023	Flood	East Layton	$1,000,000	A new development on Orchard Ridge Lane in Kaysville experienced drainage issues, which resulted in significant flooding opening up a sinkhole. Entire driveways collapsed into the sinkhole along with dumpsters and construction debris.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Layton	$150,000	Time is estimated by radar and nearby observations. A tree fell through the roof of a home in Layton, rendering it unlivable. Trees and powerlines were reported down in Kaysville.
July 2000	Lightning	Layton	$100,000	Lightning struck a home in Layton, starting a fire that gutted out the attic. The fire caused $100,000 worth of damage.
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Layton	$30,000	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Layton	$500	no account filed
March 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	East Layton	-	The US-89 at East Layton Bench mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 71 mph as a result of a convective section of a cold frontal boundary advancing through the area.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	East Layton	-	The US-89 at East Layton Bench mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Layton	-	Large tree limbs snapped, siding blown off aide of house. Wind estimate from hand held device.
October 2006	Flash Flood	East Layton	-	Small flash flood/debris flow reported over Snow Canyon burn scar.

Every storm recorded in Davis 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
Farmer's Union Building	under 500 feet	1978
Layton Oregon Short Line Railroad Station	0.3 miles	2018
John Henry Layton House	0.6 miles	1982
Joseph Adams House	1.1 miles	1978
Thomas J. and Amanda N. Smith House	1.6 miles	2006
Henry Blood House	2.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000232 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Davis County	All 70 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.