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Photograph of Kimball Stage Stop
Photograph by P. Kent Fairbanks, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kimball Stage Stop

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Kimball Stage Stop was a station on the Overland Trail near Park City, Utah. Located in the Parley's Park valley near U.S.”

Wikipedia article Kimball Stage Stop, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1971 · category: District.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. US 40, W of Silver Creek jct., Park City, 84098
  • When was it listed? April 1971
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Park City
  • National Register reference number. 71000855 - 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Kimball Stage Stop between 1992 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLD RANCH
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJEREMY I80
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRANCH MORNING
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSACKET
30 September 2000Fireworks25 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsABILITY CENTER FIRE
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTAR VIEW
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMOUNTAIN MEADOW
22 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROCKPORT RANCH

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Kimball Stage Stop: 25 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Gold, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clegg AditSilver, Gold, LeadOccurrenceVein
Round Valley South ProspectManganese, IronOccurrenceHematite, Limonite, Pyrolusite
Silver King Extension MineGold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
Silver King Extension Mine and ProspectsZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Spiro TunnelLead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer1889
Spiro TunnelGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Park City Cemetery ProspectsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Round Valley Ne QuarriesStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionProducer
Dority Spring ProspectsIron, ManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite
Dority Spring ProspectsIron, ManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park City, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPark City-The PacifiCorp Aerie mesonet station near Park City measured an initial wind gust of 60 mph at 3:00 pm MST, followed by a peak wind gust of 65 mph at 3:10 pm MST, as a result of strong outflow from nearby convection.
May 2021HailPark City-Penny-sized hail fell in Park City.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPark City-The Mount Baldy sensor at Deer Valley recorded a wind gust of 59 mph.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPark City-Dry Microburst

Every storm recorded in Summit 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
McPolin Farmstead3.3 miles2003
Ecker Hill Ski Jump3.6 miles1986
Glenwood Cemetery4.8 miles1996
Park City Miner's Hospital4.9 miles1978
David F. and Elizabeth Condon House5.0 miles1984
Peter Farthelos House5.1 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000855 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit CountyAll 111 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.