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One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Grafton Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- Address. Beginning at Hall and Grafton Ditch and the Grafton to Rockville Rd, Rockville, 84763
- When was it listed? September 2010
- Category. district
- Census division. Hurricane
- National Register reference number. 10000732 - 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
116 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Grafton Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 938 acres in total. 83 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 83 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | PETRIFIED |
| 28 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | DOUBLE TREE |
| 28 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | SERENDIPITY |
| 28 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | JENNINGS |
| 27 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.7 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | APPLE VALLEY ASST 2 |
| 2 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | GRAFTON |
| 2 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | SMITHSONIA |
| 2 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | EAGLE CRAG |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Grafton Historic District: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vanadium, Uranium, Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinder Deposit | Volcanic Materials | Occurrence | ||
| Cinder Deposit | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Wright & Thubber | Vanadium, Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit #27019 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sand | |
| Gravel Pit #27020 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sand | |
| Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No.27019 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No.27020 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
29 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockville, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 27 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $90,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding across Hildale, with multiple roads damaged by the flood waters. Debris was flowing along the shoulder of State Route 59 between Milepost 0.5 and Milepost 1.0, and minor flooding occurred along Carling Avenue and Utah Avenue. In addition, several homes reported basement flooding. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rockville | $80,000 | Hildale dispatch reported 10 power poles down throughout the city, along with multiple downed trees. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $50,000 | Video received showed 2 to 3 feet deep water flowing down a street in Hildale, eroding a portion of the road. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $50,000 | Heavy rain caused significant flooding in Hildale, with flood waters damaging both a few roads and a few homes across the area. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $30,000 | A flash flood on Short Creek in Hildale flooded a home. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $20,000 | Flash flooding was reported on Short Creek and its tributaries through the Hilldale and Colorado City area. All creek road crossings were closed for 2 to 3 hours, and the Hilldale Street Creek crossing was heavily damaged and subsequently closed indefinitely until repairs could be made. This flooding is the result of strong thunderstorms which per Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor, produced approximately 3.00 to 4.00 of rainfall, largely within the span of 2 hours, though some of this can likely be attributed to hail contamination. At 6:25 am MST on the 14th, the downstream Fort Pearce Wash gauge recorded a spike in flow to 124 CFS associated with the flood water propagation. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $20,000 | Major flash flooding was reported in the town of Hildale. In addition, water was flowing across State Route 59, moving six to eight inch rocks onto the road between mileposts 4 and 5. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $10,000 | Flash flooding was reported in the town of Hildale, with some flood waters causing issues for four hours straight. |
| September 2023 | Hail | Rockville | $7,500 | Hilldale Fire Dispatch reported quarter-sized hail, lasting approximately 10 minutes. They further relayed reports of broken windshields, shredded vegetation, and accumulating hail up to 3 inches deep in places. |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $1,500 | As a result of heavy rain nearby, fairly substantial flash flooding was observed along Short Creek through the Hilldale area, with flood waters and debris crossing streets and overflowing culverts. A subsequent rise in flow from approximately 25 CFS to a peak of 1300 CFS was observed at the Fort Pearce Wash gauge downstream as the flood wave propegated. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Rockville | $1,000 | Thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall over the high terrain near the town of Hildale over the course of an hour, with Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor 1-hour estimates of around 1 to 1.5 inches of rainfall. Light to moderate rain persisted for 2 to 3 hours thereafter. The rainfall resulted in a strong flow in Short Creek through Hildale and on into Colorado City. Dispatch from Colorado City reported all street crossings across the creek were closed due to flooding, and 3 feet of fast moving water was reported to be flowing across Hildale Street. |
| January 2023 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Associated with persistent ongoing moderate to heavy rain, park rangers at Zion National Park reported several canyons around the park were flooding. |
| November 2023 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Moderate rain during the morning hours, with Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor estimates of around 0.50 to 0.75 inches of rainfall, resulted in Flash Flooding across portions of Zion National Park in addition to river flooding. Park officials reported that multiple drainages were flashing, with the North Fork Virgin River near Springdale gauge peaking at 605 CFS and the East Fork Virgin River near Springdale gauge peaking at 320 CFS. |
| March 2023 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Hilldale Dispatch reported multiple low-lying road closures due to high flows on Short Creek. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | A thunderstorm produced heavy rainfall in the high terrain around the town of Hildale, as well as within the town itself. Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) 1-hour estimates showed around 1 to 2 inches of rainfall with this storm. Light to moderate rain continued for a while thereafter, with 3-hour MRMS estimates exceeding 2 inches of rainfall in spots. This rainfall ran into Short Creek, and resulted in a flow through the town of Hildale, though the flow was not significant enough to overtop any road crossings within town. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | The Hildale Dispatch reported two road closures near waterways due to rises from flash flooding. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Social media videos showed flash flooding over roads in and near Hildale. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Hildale Fire Department personnel reported multiple road closures in town, multiple flooded residences, and several stranded motorists due to flash flooding in the area. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Hildale Fire Department dispatch personnel reported water flowing over three street crossings. The streets were closed due to the flows. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Heavy rain resulted in significant flash flooding in Hildale that temporarily closed three road crossings. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Hildale. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Heavy rain caused widespread flash flooding across Washington County, including the town of Hildale. The gauge of the Virgin River at Virgin reported an increase from the normal flow of under 100 cfs to nearly 3300 cfs by late morning on September 22. The North Fork of the Virgin River, in Zion National Park, also rose from less than 50 cfs to over 2100 cfs. |
| September 2015 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Additional heavy rainfall over Hildale caused minor flash flooding across the area while search and rescue operations were still ongoing from the previous day's major flood. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Flash flooding occurred in the town of Hildale, closing down the main road through town. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Flash flooding occurred in Hildale, with widespread standing water across the town. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Flash flooding occurred in Hildale, with three feet of water on Canyon Street, making the road impassable. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Flash flooding was reported adjacent to Rockville, Utah, flowing into the Virgin River. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | Estimated rainfall amounts of 1.5 to 2 inches fell over southern Washington County, causing flash flooding around parts of Hildale. |
| September 2011 | Flash Flood | Rockville | - | The Utah Department of Transportation reported a flash flood near Rockville, with water flowing across State Route 9. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Deseret Telegraph and Post Office | 2.5 miles | 1972 |
 | Rockville Bridge | 2.8 miles | 1995 |
 | Herbert & Lillian Christensen House | 4.6 miles | 2019 |
| Springdale Town Jail | 5.1 miles | 2025 | |
| Springdale Hilltop Cemetery | 5.2 miles | 2025 | |
 | Flanigan Ditch | 5.8 miles | 1998 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000732 in Record Group 79. |
| Washington County | All 93 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.