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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Millard County · listed in 2007 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The listing
- Address. 10500 West 500 North, Delta, 84635
- When was it listed? March 2007
- Category. site
- Census division. Delta
- National Register reference number. 07000432 - 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
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) in 2006, burning about 35 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SEVIER RIVER |
| 21 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TOPAZ SLOUGH |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz): 4 plants, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Smelter Knolls North Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| (Facility) Smelter Knolls North Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Smelter Knolls South Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| (Facility) Smelter Knolls South Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14085 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Utah Highway Dept Gravel Pit #14085 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this property
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delta, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2014: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $2,000 | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | $50 | Thunderstorms developed along and behind the cold front as it continued to move south through the state. These thunderstorms moved eastward very slowly, and produced two different severe wind gusts. Some minor damage occurred in the eastern portion of the county. Shingles were blown off a few homes along with some tree limbs torn off. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | The Delta Bus Garage sensor recorded a peak wind gust of 62 mph. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | The A-Paid observer in Delta reported a maximum wind gust of 58 mph. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 61 mph (53 kts) in Delta. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | A severe thunderstorm in Delta produced a wind gust of 58 mph (50 kts). |
| September 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Delta | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Delta | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Delta | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Topaz War Relocation Center Site | 0.5 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07000432 in Record Group 79. |
| Millard County | All 26 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.