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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Utah State Penitentiary Chapel by the Wayside
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Off Bitterbrush Lane, Draper, 84020
- When was it listed? February 2026
- Category. building
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- National Register reference number. 100012713 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
46 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Utah State Penitentiary Chapel by the Wayside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,625 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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 | 25 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SOLO # 3 |
| 16 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WOODS LANDING ASSIST |
| 14 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BIGELOW |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PRESERVE |
| 5 August 2012 | Natural | 5,766 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | PINYON |
| 5 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ASHTON BLVD |
| 31 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | EAGLE CREST |
| 31 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LAIRD |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 40 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Utah State Penitentiary Chapel by the Wayside: 19 producers, 17 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Limestone, General, Manganese, Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqueduct Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Crystal Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Dry Hollow Prospects | Iron | Occurrence | Hematite | |
| Evans Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General, Manganese | Past Producer | 1914 | |
| Evans Lime Quarry | Manganese | Producer | ||
| Evans Lime Quarry | Manganese | Past Producer | 1930 | |
| Bluffdale Sw Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Jordan Narrows Gravel Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Jordon Narrows Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Maple Hollow Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface |
Storms near this property
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Draper, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Lightning | Draper | 1 killed, 2 hurt | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Draper | $1,200,000 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Draper | $15,000 | A broadcast media story and associated video showed localized basement flooding due to heavy rains in the area. No exact addresses were provided, so the flood area is estimated. |
| September 2023 | Flood | Draper | $15,000 | A broadcast media story and associated video showed localized basement flooding due to heavy rains in the area. No exact addresses were provided, so the flood area is estimated. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Draper | - | This thunderstorm dropped golf ball sized hail across portions of Interstate 15. The Utah Highway Patrol reported numerous accidents due to the hail. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Draper-Steadman House | 2.2 miles | 1992 |
 | J. R. Allen House | 2.6 miles | 1980 |
| Beckstead-Butterfield House | 2.6 miles | 2021 | |
 | Benjamin and Olivia Meek House | 2.8 miles | 2001 |
 | Nielsen-Sanderson House | 2.8 miles | 2018 |
 | Riverton Elementary School | 2.8 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012713 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.