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One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
La Verkin Hydroelectric Power Plant
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Off South State St., La Verkin, 84745
- When was it listed? May 2022
- Category. building
- Also known as. Electric Power Plants of Utah MPS
- Census division. Hurricane
- National Register reference number. 100007777 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
115 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of La Verkin Hydroelectric Power Plant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,170 acres in total. 21 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 | 48 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Fireworks | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LEEDS ASST #2 |
| 7 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | TOQUERVILLE ASSIST 2 |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HURRICANE ASST.#9 |
| 3 September 2012 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HURRICANE ASSIST 05 |
| 3 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TOQUERSVILLE SOUTH |
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwest Area | STATE STREET |
| 18 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 38 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | L |
| 17 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.5 acres | Cedar City Field Office | TURN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 57 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of La Verkin Hydroelectric Power Plant: 37 past producers, 8 producers, 7 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Volcanic Materials, Copper, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Rock #1 | Uranium, Vanadium, Silver | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Hot Rock No.1 | Vanadium, Silver, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| La Verkin Dixie Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Nevada | Copper, Uranium, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Vanderbilt No.5 Mines | Silver, Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Adah | Copper | Producer | ||
| Gould Ranch Tar Sand Deposit | Oil Sands | Occurrence | ||
| Maud | Silver, Uranium, Copper | Past Producer | Malachite | |
| Plata #1 , 2 & 3 | Silver, Copper | Past Producer | Malachite | |
| Plata 1-3 | Silver, Copper | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hurricane-LaVerkin Bridge | 0.6 miles | 1995 |
 | Hurricane Library-City Hall | 1.4 miles | 1991 |
 | Bradshaw House-Hotel | 1.5 miles | 1991 |
 | Emanuel and Ursella Stanworth House | 1.6 miles | 1992 |
| Hurricane Historic District | 1.6 miles | 1995 | |
 | Samuel and Elizabeth Isom House | 1.6 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007777 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.