Tooele City Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 2023 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 201 North to 154 South Main St., 24-30 West 100 South, 96 West to 48 East Vine St., Tooele, 84074
When was it listed? July 2023
Category. district
Census division. Tooele-Grantsville
National Register reference number. 100009199 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Tooele City Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,844 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 5 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	SILCOX
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Area	CANAL
27 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	S MTN 3
23 September 2014	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	TOOELE
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	206 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BUGGY
15 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Northwest Area	PIONEER ASSIST
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BAUER TRANSFORMER
9 August 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	UTAH AVE

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Tooele City Downtown Historic District: 29 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc. 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
(Facility) International Smeltershut Down	Gold, Silver, Copper	Plant
(Facility) Tooele Smelter Dump	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Plant
Ben Harrison Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	Replacement
Ben Harrison Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Underground
Boston Consolidated	Copper	Past Producer
National Tunnel and Mines	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Replacement
Rush Valley District	Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Lead	Occurrence
Salvation-Hercules Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Plumbojarosite
Salvation-Hercules Mine	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Spring Canyon Mine	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this property

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tooele, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tooele	2 hurt, $2,000	Two people were seriously injured when strong thunderstorm winds toppled a scissor lift. The individuals were using the lift to film a football game, and fell about 25 feet to the ground.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Tooele	$500,000	no account filed
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tooele	-	I-80 closed due to trucks blown over
May 2005	Flash Flood	Tooele	-	Intense slow-moving thunderstorms produced 3"+ rains across the Tooele Valley
August 2000	Funnel Cloud	Tooele	-	A thunderstorm spawned a funnel cloud that was witnessed by several people near the Overlake Subdivision on the north end of Tooele.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Tooele	-	Thunderstorms dropped 0.75 inches in 20 minutes in the mountains west of Huntington. The runoff produced a flash flood and mud flows across Highway 31. Later in the day a 46-year-old male was struck by lightning while working in a gravel pit. He was knocked unconscious by the bolt. He was taken to a hospital and later released. In Tooele, a severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust measured at 72 mph, and dropped .92 inch of rain in 15 minutes.
June 2005	Hail	Tooele	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tooele	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Tooele	-	no account filed
April 1998	Funnel Cloud	Tooele	-	no account filed
September 1998	Hail	Tooele	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Tooele	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tooele 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
Kirk Hotel, The	under 500 feet	2020
Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall	under 500 feet	1983
Tooele Carnegie Library	under 500 feet	1984
Peter Clegg House	0.2 miles	2019
Tooele Valley Railroad Complex	0.6 miles	1984
Stockton Jail	6.3 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009199 in Record Group 79.
Tooele County	All 29 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.