Old Washington County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Old Washington County Courthouse was the courthouse for Washington County, Utah from its completion in 1870 to 1960. George, Utah, the courthouse is a two-story red brick structure with unusually thick walls.”
Wikipedia article Old Washington County Courthouse (Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 85 E. 100 North, St. George, 84770
When was it listed? September 1970
Category. building
Census division. St. George
National Register reference number. 70000634 - 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

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Old Washington County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,567 acres in total. 10 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	96
Debris and open burning	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	23
Fireworks	23
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Firearms and explosives 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
8 September 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	Cedar City Field Office	PARKWAY
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwest Area	MILL WASH
30 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DIXIE DOWNS
29 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BLOOMINGTON HILLS
28 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	1050PI STANDBY
24 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MIDDLETON
23 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	400 W.
23 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SHEET METAL SHOP

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Old Washington County Courthouse: 14 past producers, 12 prospects, 5 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
Bloomington Claim	Copper, Uranium	Occurrence
P, L, P & M Claims	Uranium	Occurrence
Picture Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Riprap #27056	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence	Basalt
Riprap Deposit #27047	Volcanic Materials	Prospect	Basalt
Ut Dept Hwys Riprap Dep No.27047	Pumice	Prospect
Ut Dept Hwys Riprap No.27056	Pumice	Occurrence
Borrow Pit	Silica	Producer
Dune Sand	Silica	Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
St. George Social Hall	0.1 miles	1991
Brigham Young Winter Home and Office	0.2 miles	1971
Orson Pratt House	0.2 miles	1983
St. George Tabernacle	0.2 miles	1971
Woodward School	0.3 miles	1980
Main Building of Dixie College	0.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000634 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 93 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.