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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mountair Canyon Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. East Mt. Aire Rd., South Mt. Aire Rd., and Maple Fork Way, Millcreek, 84109
- When was it listed? August 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Emigration
- National Register reference number. 100009201 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
63 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Mountair Canyon Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 486 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | DEVONSHIRE 2 |
| 4 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | GOBBLERS KNOB |
| 3 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | MOUNT AIRE |
| 22 September 2020 | Natural | 60 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | NEFFS |
| 22 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | NEFFS WFU |
| 2 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GREEN CAN |
| 16 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BOX ELDER |
| 15 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | KOBE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Mountair Canyon Historic District: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Cement Rock, Lead, Silver, Lead, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon Rim Quarries | Limestone, General, Clay, Cement Rock | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| Emigration Canyon Prospects | Limestone, General | Occurrence | Calcite | |
| Hayes Mine | Gold, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Last Dollar Mine | Lead | Occurrence | Calcite, Galena | |
| Mill Creek Phosphate | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | ||
| Parleys Canyon Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Pharaohs Glen Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Scott Prospects | Lead, Silver | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 23089 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millcreek, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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 1993 | Hail | Millcreek | $500 | Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mountain Dell Dam | 1.4 miles | 1980 |
| Little Dell Station | 3.7 miles | 1971 | |
| Harlan and Marie Nelson House | 4.6 miles | 2021 | |
 | John and Margaret Price House | 4.8 miles | 2015 |
 | George and Ellen Furgis House | 5.3 miles | 2015 |
 | Emigration Canyon | 5.3 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009201 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.