Photograph of Road Island Diner — Photograph by Ntsimp, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

O'Mahony Dining Car No. 1107

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Oakley Diner, formerly known as The Road Island Diner is a rare classic Streamline Moderne 60' x 16' Art Deco diner car restaurant located in the remote mountain city of Oakley, Utah, in the United States. It was prefabricated as diner # 1107 in 1939 at the Elizabeth, New Jersey, factory of the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company.”
Wikipedia article Road Island Diner, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 2009 · 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.
Address. 981 W. Weber Canyon Rd., Oakley, 84055
When was it listed? August 2009
Category. building
Census division. Kamas
Architectural style. Streamline Moderne
National Register reference number. 09000639 - 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of O'Mahony Dining Car No. 1107 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 19 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	70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	19
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	11
Fireworks	7
Other causes	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
6 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DOG HOLLOW
5 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ROB YOUNG POLE
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SWIFTS CANYON
3 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	I CAN HELP
28 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PEOA
23 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ROCKPORT PARK
21 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BOULDERVILLE WIRE
19 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	NORTH BENCH

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of O'Mahony Dining Car No. 1107: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone, Dimension, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Brown's Canyon Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Browns Canyon Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
South Fork Weber River Section	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
South Fork Weber River Section	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer
Chuck No. 1 Thru 15	Gold, Silver	Producer
Gold Bullion No. 1 Thru 5	Gold, Silver	Producer
Lucky Strike Nos. 1 Thru 6.	Gold, Silver	Producer
Marion Cemetery Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Marion Cemetery Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 22006	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakley, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2006	Hail	Oakley	-	NIckle with some quarter size stones

Every storm recorded in Summit 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

3 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
Oscar F. Lyons House	2.2 miles	1983
William and Martha Myrick House	3.4 miles	1982
Byron T. Mitchell House	7.3 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000639 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit County	All 111 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.