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One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Olsen House and Mortuary
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 315 South 200 East, Ephraim, 84627
- When was it listed? May 2022
- Category. building
- Census division. Ephraim-Manti
- National Register reference number. 100007779 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
59 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Olsen House and Mortuary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 479 acres in total. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | E FIRE |
| 4 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Manti-Lasal National Forest | KEEBLER |
| 27 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WILLOW CREEK |
| 24 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Manti-Lasal National Forest | LAKE HILL C.G. |
| 20 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BULL |
| 14 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Manti-Lasal National Forest | NEW CANYON |
| 14 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WILLOW CREEK ROAD |
| 12 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Manti-Lasal National Forest | WILLOW CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 32 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Olsen House and Mortuary: 26 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hill Limestone Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Limestone | |
| Black Hill Limestone Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Little Pigeon Hollow Limestone Quarry #1 | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Limestone | |
| Little Pigeon Hollow Ls.Quarry No.1 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry #1 | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Limestone | |
| Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry #2 | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Limestone | |
| Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry #3 | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry No.1 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry No.2 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry No.3 | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ephraim, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ephraim | - | A peak wind gust of 72 mph was recorded by the Joe's Valley RAWS. |
| September 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Ephraim | - | A small tornado (F0) was observed just west of Ephraim in Sanpete County. The tornado moved slowly to the northeast over open country before dissipating. This tornado remained on the ground for only a few seconds, but the funnel cloud was visible for about 10 minutes. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dykes Sorensen House | under 500 feet | 1982 | |
 | Niels Ole Anderson House | 0.2 miles | 1978 |
| Hans C. Jensen House | 0.3 miles | 1983 | |
 | Larsen-Noyes House | 0.4 miles | 1978 |
 | Greaves-Deakin House | 0.4 miles | 1980 |
| Ephraim Tithing Office-Bishop's Storehouse | 0.4 miles | 2020 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007779 in Record Group 79. |
| Sanpete County | All 83 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.