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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Beckstead-Butterfield House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 13032 South Redwood Rd., Riverton, 84065
- When was it listed? April 2021
- Category. building
- Also known as. Riverton, Utah MPS
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- National Register reference number. 100006389 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Beckstead-Butterfield House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 50 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TONYA |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PRESERVE |
| 29 August 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SPRINGVIEW ASSIST |
| 13 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | ADAMS CANYON |
| 9 July 2006 | Natural | 25 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | TRAVERSE MTN |
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | COLD SPRING |
| 4 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | POLE |
| 28 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.6 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | TRAVERSE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Beckstead-Butterfield House: 16 producers, 15 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Limestone, General, Manganese, Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Evans Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General, Manganese | Past Producer | 1914 | |
| Subsurface Brines | Bromine | Producer | 1914, 1917 | |
| Evans Lime Quarry | Manganese | Producer | ||
| Evans Lime Quarry | Manganese | Past Producer | 1930 | |
| Bluffdale Sw Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Maple Hollow Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Olivers Siding Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | 1982 | |
| Point of the Mountain Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Salt Lake Valley Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riverton, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Riverton | $200,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riverton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Riverton | - | One inch diameter hail was reported near Draper. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Riverton | - | Penny sized hail was reported in Riverton. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Riverton | - | A member of the public in Riverton reported penny-size hail. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Riverton | - | Hail estimated to be 0.75 inches in diameter was reported near Riverton. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Riverton | - | One inch diameter hail was reported near Riverton. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Riverton | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Riverton Elementary School | 0.3 miles | 1996 |
 | Draper-Steadman House | 0.6 miles | 1992 |
| Riverton Historic District | 0.9 miles | 2004 | |
| Utah State Penitentiary Chapel by the Wayside | 2.6 miles | 2026 | |
| Garside-McMullin House | 3.2 miles | 1982 | |
| Samuel and Geneva Holt Farmstead | 3.5 miles | 2001 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006389 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.