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Amanda Conk Best House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Amanda Conk Best House, at 3622 South 1100 East in Millcreek, Utah, was built in 1896. Also known as the Boyle House, as the Beal House, and as the Aoki House, it is a brick Queen Anne style house that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”

Wikipedia article Amanda Conk Best House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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.
  • Listed as. Best, Amanda Conk, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 3622 S. 1100 E., Millcreek, 84106
  • When was it listed? December 2008
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Salt Lake City
  • Architectural style. Victorian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 08001154 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Amanda Conk Best House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined9
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeDEVONSHIRE 2
11 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTOLCAT
10 September 1997Natural15 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestOLYMPUS
8 August 2005Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMILL
6 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOLE CAT
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeMILLVILLE CANYON
10 August 1995Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMILL CREEK
9 July 2019Fireworks2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Amanda Conk Best House: 30 producers, 23 past producers, 5 occurrences. 30 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alta ChampionSilver, Lead, Gold, BismuthProducerVein
Canyon Rim QuarriesLimestone, General, Clay, Cement RockPast ProducerCalcite
Cottonwood Clay PitsClayProducer
Dry Fork MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Intermountain Smelting CorpAntimonyProducer
Midvale Minerals Co.Zinc, Silver, Lead, ArsenicProducer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
New EnglandSilver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
New York & Great Western Mining, Smelting, and Development CompanyZinc, LeadPast Producer
Onyx RanchGemstoneProducerOnyx

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millcreek, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993HailMillcreek$500Tropical 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Robert Jr. Gardner House0.6 miles2018
Mountair Acres Subdivision Historic District1.0 miles2025
Roberta Sugden House1.1 miles2016
Butler-Wallin House1.3 miles2005
Hawarden1.3 miles1980
Edward Pugh House1.3 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08001154 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Salt Lake CountyAll 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.