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Wells Fargo and Company Express Building
Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
From the record
“The Wells Fargo and Company Express Building is a historic commercial building in the ghost town of Silver Reef, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Wells Fargo and Company Express Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · built in 1877.
National Register reference number.71000861- 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
157 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Wells Fargo and Company Express Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,204 acres in total. 59 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
59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
44
Equipment and vehicle use
22
Debris and open burning
12
Recreation and ceremony
9
Fireworks
4
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
91 workings within 5 miles of Wells Fargo and Company Express Building: 64 past producers, 12 occurrences, 7 prospects, 4 unknowns.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Uranium, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Silver Reef, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flash flood.
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.
A thunderstorm produced heavy rainfall over the course of an hour or so in the high terrain northwest of the town of Leeds, UT. Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor 1-hour estimates show around 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rainfall with this storm. An initial report was received of water over the bridge at Red Cliffs Campground as water flowed out of Water Canyon and through Harrisburg Creek. A short time later, a video was found on Twitter showing water flowing through the campground and overtopping the access bridge.
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.
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.
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