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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1927.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Murray City Diesel Power Plant
Built in 1927. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 157 W. 4800 South, Murray City, 84107
- When was it listed? January 2015
- Category. building
- Also known as. Murray City, Utah MPS; Murray City, Utah MPS
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- When was it built? 1927
- National Register reference number. 14001139 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Murray City Diesel Power Plant between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 2 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 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 |
| 31 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BINGHAM ASSIST |
| 9 July 2019 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST |
| 4 July 1998 | Fireworks | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | WASATCH |
| 12 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | UNION ASSIST |
| 7 June 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | MURDOCK |
| 5 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 64 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Murray City Diesel Power Plant: 31 producers, 25 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Champion | Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth | Producer | Vein | |
| Cottonwood Clay Pits | Clay | Producer | ||
| Dry Fork Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Midvale Minerals Co | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic | Past 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 | |
| Spring and Summit | Gold, Silver | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John P. Cahoon House | 0.3 miles | 1983 |
 | Murray Downtown Historic District | 0.3 miles | 2006 |
 | Iris Theater, Apartments and Commercial Building | 0.4 miles | 2001 |
 | Warenski-Duvall Comerical Building and Apartments | 0.4 miles | 2000 |
 | Murray LDS Second Ward Meetinghouse | 0.4 miles | 2001 |
| Murray Downtown Residential Historic District | 0.7 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14001139 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.