Mountair Acres Subdivision Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2025 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Imperial Street on the north, 3150 South on the east _Highland Drive on the south, and 3010 South on the west, Millcreek, 84106
When was it listed? April 2025
Category. district
Census division. Salt Lake City
National Register reference number. 100011597 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Mountair Acres Subdivision Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 7 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	11
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Fireworks	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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
11 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	TOLCAT
10 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	NEFF
10 September 1997	Natural	15 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	OLYMPUS
8 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.2 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MILL
6 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	GEORGE'S
6 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	POLE CAT
5 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	MILLVILLE CANYON

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Mountair Acres Subdivision Historic District: 23 past producers, 19 producers, 5 occurrences. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Alta Champion	Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth	Producer	Vein
Canyon Rim Quarries	Limestone, General, Clay, Cement Rock	Past Producer	Calcite
Dry Fork Mine	Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Emigration Canyon Prospects	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Calcite
Intermountain Smelting Corp	Antimony	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
New York & Great Western Mining, Smelting, and Development Company	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Onyx Ranch	Gemstone	Producer	Onyx

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this property

1 since 1993

Regional 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.

Every storm 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
Robert Jr. Gardner House	0.8 miles	2018
Highland Park Historic District	0.8 miles	1998
Amanda Conk Best House	1.0 miles	2008
Roberta Sugden House	1.0 miles	2016
Salt Lake Country Club and Golf Course	1.2 miles	2015
Nathaniel Baldwin House	1.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011597 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.