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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2022 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
John and Jennette Gerrard House
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.
- Listed as. Gerrard, John and Jennette, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1488 West 4800 South, Taylorsville, 84123
- When was it listed? October 2022
- Category. building
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- National Register reference number. 100008273 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of John and Jennette Gerrard House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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 | 8 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TRAILER |
| 31 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BINGHAM ASSIST |
| 9 July 2019 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST |
| 7 June 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | MURDOCK |
| 5 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV |
| 4 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 5525 S COUGAR LN |
| 21 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 963 W MOGUL PEAK RD |
| 19 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 4430 S ATHERTON DR |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 47 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of John and Jennette Gerrard House: 22 producers, 21 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Champion | Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth | Producer | Vein | |
| Dry Fork Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Midvale Minerals Co | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic | Past Producer | ||
| Midvale Minerals Co. | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic | Producer | ||
| National Tunnel and Mines Co. | Lead, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| New England | Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Onyx Ranch | Gemstone | Producer | Onyx | |
| Spring and Summit | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Mercury, Lead | Occurrence | Cinnabar, Mercury | |
| Utah Delaware Mining Co. | Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylorsville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $1,500 | A tree was blown down in Taylorsville. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $1,000 | Multiple power lines were downed in Taylorsville. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | - | The I-215 at MP 16 Taylorsville mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 66 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| June 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Taylorsville | - | Photos from social media showed a funnel cloud looking east from Taylorsville. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | - | Multiple reports of wind damage associated with a thunderstorm were reported in Taylorsville. A vinyl fence was damaged, a large tree was uprooted, and large limbs were downed. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Taylorsville | - | Penny-sized hail was reported in Taylorsville. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Taylorsville | - | A CoCoRaHS observer reported a rainfall total of 1.26 inches near Kearns. Local media reported flooding in the Kearns and Taylorsville area, and standing water accumulated 1 to 3 feet in low lying areas. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | - | 35ft evergreen tree uprooted at Bennion Jr. High School |
| August 2006 | Hail | Taylorsville | - | Numerous hail reports betweeen 0.5 and 0.88" in teh Salt Lake Valley betwen 1350 and 1420 MST. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylorsville LDS Ward Meetinghouse | 0.3 miles | 2022 | |
 | Murray LDS Second Ward Meetinghouse | 1.8 miles | 2001 |
| William McLachlan Farmhouse | 1.9 miles | 1980 | |
| Westwood Village Historic District | 1.9 miles | 2024 | |
 | Murray City Diesel Power Plant | 2.0 miles | 2015 |
 | John P. Cahoon House | 2.3 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100008273 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.