Golden Spike National Historic Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Box Elder County · listed in 1966 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. NE of Great Salt Lake, Promontory, 84307
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Census division. Howell-Snowville
National Register reference number. 66000080 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Golden Spike National Historic Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,145 acres in total. 23 started naturally. None 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
Natural	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Golden Spike National Historic Site	BIG FILL
4 September 2005	Natural	5.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GREEN FIRE
19 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.8 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	GOLDEN SPIKE
12 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PROMONTORY RIDGE
10 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	EAST OF GOLDEN SPIKE
1 September 1999	Natural	300 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	EAST GOLDEN SPIKE
8 August 2003	Natural	13 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PROMONTORY RANCH PR SOUT
7 August 1998	Natural	200 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DARRELL PETERSON

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Golden Spike National Historic Site: 15 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02063	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02065	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02066	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02067	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02079	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14034	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14035	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept of Highway Pit No. 14034	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #02063	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #02064	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000080 in Record Group 79.
Box Elder County	All 45 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.