Fort Deseret

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Fort Deseret is a former fort located in northeastern Millard County, Utah, United States, just south of Deseret.”
Wikipedia article Fort Deseret, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Millard County · listed in 1970 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2 mi. S of Deseret on UT 257, Deseret, 84624
When was it listed? October 1970
Category. structure
Census division. Delta
National Register reference number. 70000624 - 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

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Fort Deseret between 1993 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	STYLER FARM
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	RIVER BANK
6 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MOODY FARM
5 August 2020	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Central Area	MUD FORT
4 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Area	257
22 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OASIS
15 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FORT DESERET
10 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	30 FOOT DITCH

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Deseret: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit 14074	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
	Utah Dept. of Highways Borrow Pit #14074	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Millard County

Storms near this property

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deseret, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2024	Funnel Cloud	Deseret	-	Videos and pictures were received via social media of a moderately sized rotating funnel cloud extending approximately halfway down from cloud base to ground near Delta. Location estimated based upon video and associated description.

Every storm recorded in Millard 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Deseret Relief Society Hall	1.7 miles	1995
Hinckley High School Gymnasium	4.3 miles	1985
Millard Academy	4.3 miles	1982
Gunnison Massacre Site	6.7 miles	1976
Van's Hall	7.1 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000624 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Millard County	All 26 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.