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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2021 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Magna Commercial Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- Address. Along West Main St., Magna, 84044
- When was it listed? January 2021
- Category. district
- Also known as. Historic Resources of Magna, Utah, 1850-1972 MPS
- Census division. Magna
- National Register reference number. 100006004 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Magna Commercial Downtown Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 7200 WEST ASSIST |
| 2 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | FENCE LINE |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | U 111 |
| 20 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | SUNRISE |
| 4 July 2008 | Fireworks | 18 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | KENNECOTT |
| 10 July 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 35 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | KENNECOTT |
| 22 June 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 95MM |
| 11 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 134 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | CW000222 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Magna Commercial Downtown Historic District: 8 past producers, 7 producers, 3 plants. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Garfield Copper Refinery | Copper, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Garfield Copper Smelter | Copper, Silver, Gold | Plant | ||
| Bonneville Concentrator | Copper, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Producer | ||
| Magna Concentrator | Copper, Molybdenum | Producer | ||
| Saltair Beach Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Saltair Pit | Salt | Producer | ||
| Saltair Plant | Halite | Producer | 1888, 1982 | |
| Garfield Phosphate Plant | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Plant | ||
| Garfield Phosphoric Acid Plant | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | 1954 | |
| Arthur Concentrator | Copper | Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magna, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 funnel cloud, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Magna | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magna | $1,000 | A social media post showed pictures of a large tree that was snapped by strong winds in Magna. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Magna | - | Photos on social media indicated hail ranging from quarter- to half-dollar-sized. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Magna | - | A large tree, 2 feet in diameter, was uprooted in Magna. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Magna | - | Nickel-sized hail was observed in Magna. |
| April 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Magna | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Magna | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Magna | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Magna | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Magna | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Empress Theatre | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Magna Community Baptist Church | 0.3 miles | 1986 |
| William McLachlan Farmhouse | 7.8 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006004 in Record Group 79. |
| Salt Lake County | All 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.