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Photograph of Morgan Union Pacific Depot
Photograph by Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Morgan Union Pacific Depot

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1926, by Gilbert Stanley Underwood.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 98 N. Commercial St., Morgan, 84050
  • When was it listed? October 2011
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Morgan North
  • When was it built? 1926
  • Architect. Gilbert Stanley Underwood
  • National Register reference number. 11000757 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Union Pacific Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,011 acres in total. 24 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/undetermined84
Debris and open burning64
Natural24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Fireworks9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEST YOUNG
9 September 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLONGWIRE FIRE
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsVIC'S BURN
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOMO FIRE
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMILLRACE FIRE
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSCOTTS NALE
6 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPARKS DON'T SLEEP
4 September 2005Natural12 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWIDOWMAKER FIRE

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Morgan Union Pacific Depot: 13 past producers, 9 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Copper, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Iron KingGold, CopperOccurrenceVein
Red Eagle and Morgan ConsolidatedCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Utah Dept. of Highway Pit No. 15022Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSurface
Utah Highway Dept No 15022StonePast Producer
Unknown ProspectMicaOccurrenceMuscovite
Unknown ProspectMicaPast Producer
Devil'm Slide Phosphate LocalityPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrenceCHEMICAL SEDIMENT
Devils Slide Phosphate LocalityPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Phosphate DepositsPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Phil Shop Hollow Copper ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgan, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2012FloodMorgan$50,000Heavy rain caused flooding in and around the town of Morgan, Utah, with the most damage occurring along Morgan Valley Drive. Four residential basements were flooded in this area, and water flowed over some roadways.
April 2023FloodMorgan$5,000State Route 66 between Morgan and East Canyon Reservoir began flooding on the 12th, resulting in closure. It was opened the next day.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMorgan$1,000Power lines were downed in Morgan.
July 2025HailMorgan-Public social media photo of hail approximately 1 inch in diameter. Time estimated by radar.
September 2013Funnel CloudMorgan-A funnel cloud was reported and photographed near Morgan, Utah. The time listed is approximate.
August 2002HailMorgan-Severe thunderstorms produced 3/4 inch hail in the Morgan Valley.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Morgan Historic District0.5 miles2022
Daniel Heiner House0.5 miles1978
Morgan Elementary School0.5 miles1986
Morgan High School Mechanical Arts Building0.6 miles1986
South Round Valley School2.1 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000757 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morgan CountyAll 7 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.