Iosepa Settlement Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 1971 · category: Site.

Sources: 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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Skull Valley, Iosepa, 84029
When was it listed? August 1971
Category. site
Census division. Dugway-Wendover
National Register reference number. 71000856 - 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Iosepa Settlement Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,192 acres in total. 54 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
Natural	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	CAR
4 September 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	HORSESHOE
18 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	LOST
17 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CURRENT CREEK MTN
16 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	DART
16 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	CORNDOG
16 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	HUNTER
16 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	PIRATE

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Iosepa Settlement Cemetery: 15 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Con Lela Prospects	Iron	Prospect	1937
Consolidated Lela Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	1937
Consolidated Lela Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Three Picks Claims	Iron	Occurrence	Replacement Vein
Gravel Pit 23070	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit 23071	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit 23073	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Site 23069	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut. Dept. Hwys. Gravel Pit 23064	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. Hwys. Gravel Pit 23065	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Tooele 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 71000856 in Record Group 79.
Tooele County	All 29 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.