Muir House

Built in 1869. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Cache County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1869.

Sources: 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 145 S. Main St., Mendon, 84325
When was it listed? April 2008
Category. building
Census division. Wellsville
When was it built? 1869
National Register reference number. 08000060 - 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Muir House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 650 acres in total. 15 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
Natural	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	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
3 September 2005	Natural	50 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	DEEP CANYON
9 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	BRUSHY
8 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	3200 WEST
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	COLD WATER
27 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HAWS
26 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	RAM
26 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	DEWEYVILLE 2
26 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	DEWEYVILLE 3

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Muir House: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mendon Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mendon Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendon, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 2012	Flood	Mendon	$100,000	Heavy rainfall in the Cache Valley, combined with frozen ground and snowmelt, produced flooding in portions of Mendon and Wellsville. Culverts in those areas quickly became clogged with debris, and several homes reported basement flooding. State Route 23 was also closed for a period of time due to water flowing across the road.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mendon	$50,000	Severe thunderstorms blew through Cache County, snapping power poles and downing power lines in Mendon, and wrapping a large sprinkler line around a telephone pole in the Newton/Clarkston area.

Every storm recorded in Cache 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
William & Elizabeth Barrett Farmstead	0.2 miles	2008
Mendon Station	0.3 miles	2008
James G. Willie House	0.4 miles	1983
George Washington Baker House	0.4 miles	1983
James Gardner House	0.4 miles	1982
Forster Hotel	0.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000060 in Record Group 79.
Cache County	All 80 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.