Dyre & Maria Amundsen House

Built in 1891. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Dyre and Maria Amundsen House, at 307 E. Winchester St. in Murray, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.”
Wikipedia article Dyre and Maria Amundsen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1891.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Listed as. Amundsen, Dyre & Maria, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 307 E. Winchester St., Murray City, 84107
When was it listed? April 2015
Category. building
Also known as. Murray City, Utah MPS; Murray City, Utah MPS
Census division. Salt Lake City
When was it built? 1891
National Register reference number. 15000131 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Dyre & Maria Amundsen House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22 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	7
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TONYA
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
2 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CANYON COVE
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
3 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OLYMPUS

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Dyre & Maria Amundsen House: 44 producers, 33 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 44 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
All Minerals Mill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Alta Champion	Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth	Producer	Vein
Dry Fork Mine	Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Interstate Brick Quartzite Quarry	Silica	Past Producer	Quartz
Midvale Minerals Co	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.	Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic	Producer
Murry Refractories Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past 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

Every working 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
Matthew and Johanna Rowan House	0.8 miles	2019
Henry J. Wheeler Farm	1.0 miles	1976
Thomas & Margaret Taylor House	1.3 miles	2020
Murray Hillside Historic District	1.4 miles	2014
Fitzgerald House	1.7 miles
Edward and Harriet Rosenbaum House	1.7 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000131 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.