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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2024 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Little Cottonwood Canyon Climbing Area
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. 4385 Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, Sandy, 84092
- When was it listed? August 2024
- Category. site
- Census division. Cottonwood
- National Register reference number. 100010670 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
96 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Little Cottonwood Canyon Climbing Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 36 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 36 |
| Natural | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | RED PINE |
| 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 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | HOGUM |
| 3 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | FERGUSON |
| 25 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | CHINA WALL |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 71 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 71 workings within 5 miles of Little Cottonwood Canyon Climbing Area: 30 producers, 23 past producers, 18 occurrences. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Lead, Silver, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Jay Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Cottonwood Gold Eagle Mine | Silver, Iron | Past Producer | 1925 | |
| Floral Lode Claim | Lead, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Interstate Brick Quartzite Quarry | Silica | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Lower Bells Canyon Workings | Copper, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Mortand Cement Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Murray Copper and Victor Claims | Copper, Gold, Lead | Occurrence | 1912 | |
| Murry Refractories Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| New State Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Rainbow Group Property | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Bismuth, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Vein |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Granite LDS Ward Chapel-Avard Fairbanks Studio | 1.7 miles | 2005 |
| James A. and Janet Muir House | 2.1 miles | 2018 | |
| Alvin and Annie Green House | 2.3 miles | 2000 | |
| Spencer Homestead Site | 2.6 miles | 2022 | |
 | Granite Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District | 3.2 miles | 1989 |
| Granite Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District | 3.3 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010670 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.