Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
From the record
“The Layton Oregon Short Line Railroad Station is a historic railroad depot in Layton, Utah, United States. The depot was opened in 1912 alongside the tracks of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, which at that time was a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Layton station (Oregon Short Line Railroad), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 70 National Register listings published here for Davis County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 100001979 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
30 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Layton Oregon Short Line Railroad Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,382 acres in total. 10 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
Natural
10
Fireworks
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Recreation and ceremony
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Debris and open burning
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
37 workings within 5 miles of Layton Oregon Short Line Railroad Station: 15 prospects, 9 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Layton, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 flash 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.
A new development on Orchard Ridge Lane in Kaysville experienced drainage issues, which resulted in significant flooding opening up a sinkhole. Entire driveways collapsed into the sinkhole along with dumpsters and construction debris.
Time is estimated by radar and nearby observations. A tree fell through the roof of a home in Layton, rendering it unlivable. Trees and powerlines were reported down in Kaysville.
The US-89 at East Layton Bench mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 71 mph as a result of a convective section of a cold frontal boundary advancing through the area.
The US-89 at East Layton Bench mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
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.
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.
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