Manti Motor Company Building

Built in 1916. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Manti Motor Company Building, also known as the Utah-Idaho Motor Company Building and Nell's Motor in Manti, Utah, was built in 1916. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”
Wikipedia article Manti Motor Company Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1916.

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. 87 N. Main St., Manti, 84642
When was it listed? May 2008
Category. building
Census division. Ephraim-Manti
When was it built? 1916
National Register reference number. 08000384 - 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Manti Motor Company Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 372 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 4 were 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	17
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Fireworks	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DODGES CANYON
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PALASADE
26 September 2020	Firearms and explosives use	2.0 acres	Central Area	OUTSIDE THE BASEMENT
20 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BULL
17 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named
17 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Manti-Lasal National Forest	BROCKS
16 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PALISADES 2
14 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WILLOW CREEK ROAD

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Manti Motor Company Building: 18 past producers, 8 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Alunite Mineral	Aluminum	Occurrence
Betty A,	Vanadium, Uranium	Producer
Temple Hill Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Limestone
Temple Hill Quarries	Stone	Past Producer
Little Vernon	Uranium	Occurrence	Carnotite
Moab Mine	Uranium	Producer
North Mesa	Uranium	Producer
White Mesa Mine	Uranium	Past Producer
Yellow Circle Mining Co.	Uranium	Producer
Manti Canyon Gravel Pit #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manti, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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	Tornado (F2)	Manti	$2,000,000	An F2 tornado began one mile south-southwest of Manti and moved northeast through Southeast Manti. The first mile of the tornado path was across open land, however the tornado produced some remarkable damage at the start. A 10X12 foot pioneer building was lifted, rotated 90 degrees, and moved 8 feet before being dropped back to the ground. At the south end of Manti, the tornado struck the Anderson Lumber business and did substantial damage. A 40 foot semi-trailer, loaded with insulation, was lifted and thrown onto it's side approximately 35 to 40 feet away. A large amount of debris, along with a 10X10 foot wooden shed, was thrown across Highway 89 and over the hill some 200 to 300 feet away. The wide swath of the tornado did considerable damage as it moved through the residential area in Southeast Manti. As the tornado exited the residential area, where some of the heaviest damage occurred, a 26 foot camp trailer was lifted and thrown to the west-northwest some 150 to 200 feet and disintegrated. The tornado continued across open farmland another half a mile or so before dissipating near the mountains. It has been determined that this was a high-end F2 tornado, with winds as high as 157 mph. The distance traveled was 2.75 miles, and the width was 800 feet. Time on the ground was approximately 15 minutes. Estimated damage is around $2,000,000, but could still go higher. Amazingly, there were no injuries.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Manti	-	The US-89 at MP 254 South Manti mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 64 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
September 2002	Hail	Manti	-	The storm that produced the F2 tornado in Manti, also dropped 1 3/4 inch (reported as apricot-size) hail on the town.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Manti National Guard Armory	under 500 feet	1986
Cox-Shoemaker-Parry House	under 500 feet	1982
Cox Family Big House Complex	under 500 feet	2020
Sanpete County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1985
Poulsen-Hall House	0.1 miles	2011
Manti Carnegie Library	0.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000384 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete County	All 83 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.