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Photograph of Lawrence Brothers and Company Store
Photograph by Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lawrence Brothers and Company Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Lawrence Brothers and Company Store is a historic commercial building in Ophir, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Lawrence Brothers and Company Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 31 W. Main St., Ophir, 84071
  • When was it listed? October 2013
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Rush Valley
  • National Register reference number. 13000842 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Lawrence Brothers and Company Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,276 acres in total. 34 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
Natural34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Firearms and explosives use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism30 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeMERCUR
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCAMPFIRE #4
5 September 2005Natural2.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeDRY CANYON
4 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHUBERT
22 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeSTOCKTON 6
21 September 2000Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeSILVERADO
21 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMERCUR CANYON
2 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeCALUMET

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 187 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 187 workings within 5 miles of Lawrence Brothers and Company Store: 123 past producers, 34 occurrences, 23 producers, 6 prospects. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron, Lead, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bald Mountain Sw ProspectsManganese, Calcium, CopperOccurrenceCalcite, Malachite, Pyrolusite
BrickyardGold, Silver, Mercury, ArsenicPast ProducerReplacement
Brickyard MineGold, Silver, Mercury, Arsenic, AntimonyPast Producer1872
BrooklynLead, Silver, ZincPast ProducerReplacement
BrooklynLead, Zinc, SilverProspect
Buffalo MineLead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, IronPast Producer1916, 1936
Buffalo MineLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1898
Camp Floyd District (Mercur)Gold, Arsenic, Copper, Mercury, SilverProducer1870, 1883
Camp Floyd-MercurGold, Silver, Mercury, VanadiumOccurrence
Carrie Steel MineSilver, Antimony, GoldProducer

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this property

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ophir, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 3 flash flood. 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
August 2022Flash FloodOphir$10,000Flash flooding produced a washout on Ophir Canyon Road. Time of the event is estimated based on reports.
September 2022Flash FloodOphir$1,100Strong thunderstorms moved over the Oquirrh Mountains over the course of an hour or two, resulting in moderate to at times heavy rain over the Jacob City Fire burn scar. Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor 1-hour rainfall estimates were in the 0.50 to 0.75 inch range. This was enough to result in a flow along Soldier Creek, which resulted in the evacuation of one house by State Route 36 and a road closure.
August 2023Flash FloodOphir$1,000Large debris flow through Soldier Canyon off the Jacob City burn scar. Water and debris is flowing across SR-36.

Every storm recorded in Tooele 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

3 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
Reddick Hotel-Ophir LDS Meetinghouse0.2 miles2016
Ophir Town Hall0.2 miles1983
Stockton School7.7 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 13000842 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tooele CountyAll 29 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.