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Photograph of The Great Hunt Panel
Photograph by Sandy Brown Jensen from Eugene, OR, USA, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Great Hunt Panel Site, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“Ninemile Canyon is a canyon, approximately 40 miles (60 km) long, located in Carbon and Duchesne counties in eastern Utah, United States. Promoted as "the world's longest art gallery", the canyon is known for its extensive rock art, most of it created by the Fremont culture and the Ute people.”

Wikipedia article Ninemile Canyon (Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2018 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Nine Mile Canyon Rd., Price
  • When was it listed? January 2018
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Nine Mile Canyon, Utah MPS
  • Census division. East Carbon
  • National Register reference number. 100001978 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Great Hunt Panel Site, The between 1997 and 2012, burning about 8 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
2 August 2007Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficePETERS POINT
8 July 2010Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficePRICKLY PEAR
30 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named
20 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOOK
26 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficePRICKLEY PEAR
24 May 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMoab Field OfficeDADDY CNY
30 April 2012Other causesunder an acreMoab Field OfficePRICKLY PEAR
20 November 2012Other causes7.0 acresMoab Field OfficeDRY CANYON

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Price, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindPrice$300,000Severe thunderstorm winds hit the area near Price, with most damage reported in Miller Creek. The strongest recorded wind was 58 mph (50 kts) at the Price Airport. However, 4 miles to the south in Miller Creek, the winds lifted a mobile home off its foundation and destroyed the structure. A roof was torn off another home and onto another. causing heavy damage. A horse was killed by flying debris. A total of 12 houses were damaged, along with a barn and a corral.
August 2017HailPrice-Nickel-sized hail was reported near Price.
September 2016Flash FloodPrice-Flash flooding was reported in Price and other surrounding areas, including near the Book Cliffs.
July 2011Flash FloodPrice-Flash flooding was reported on Gordon Creek, west of Price, after a radar-estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain fell over the area.
October 2010HailPrice-Nickel size (0.88 inch diameter) hail was reported near Price.
June 2006HailPrice-Estimated size...reported by NSSL. 1" hail also reported in Sunnyside and Wellington about the same time.
September 2006HailPrice-Large thunderstorms associated with a cold front produced 1.25" to 1.5" hail reported in numerous location in and just east of Price.
August 2005HailPrice-Hail fell for 20 min in downtown Price
July 2001Tornado (F0)Price-An F0 tornado was spotted over open country about 10 miles southwest of Price.
June 1997FloodPrice-A strong thunderstorm caused heavy rain to fall in the town of Price. Street flooding occurred due to this heavy downpour. A spotter in Price measured 1.61" of rain on this date.
September 2006HailPrice-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon County

Newspapers printed here

3,189 digitised pages

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 395 issues, 3,189 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Eastern Utah Advocate1895 to 1915
The Sun1915 to 1932

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100001978 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon CountyAll 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.
  • 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.