Spencer Homestead Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2022 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2591 East Dimple Dell Rd., Sandy, 84092
When was it listed? October 2022
Category. site
Also known as. Sandy City MPS
Census division. Salt Lake City
National Register reference number. 100008270 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Spencer Homestead Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,461 acres in total. 24 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	24
Recreation and ceremony	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LONE PEAK
6 September 2005	Natural	10 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	NORTH DEAF
5 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	BELLS
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	FERGUSON
3 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	FERGUSON
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TONYA
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BELLS RESERVOIR
16 September 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	HOUNDSTOOTH

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Spencer Homestead Site: 22 past producers, 19 producers, 14 occurrences. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Aqueduct Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Quartz
Blue Jay Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Cottonwood Gold Eagle Mine	Silver, Iron	Past Producer	1925
Lower Bells Canyon Workings	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Lucky Chance	Lead	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrite
Murray Copper and Victor Claims	Copper, Gold, Lead	Occurrence	1912
New State Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Rocky Mouth Canyon Adit	Copper, Molybdenum, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Temple Granite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Surface
Tungsten Tunnel Prospect	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

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 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio	1.3 miles	2005
James A. and Janet Muir House	1.7 miles	2018
Little Cottonwood Canyon Climbing Area	2.6 miles	2024
Joseph M. and Celestia Smith House	2.7 miles	1994
Lauritz H. and Emma Smith House	2.7 miles	2006
Mary Smith House	2.8 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100008270 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.