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Photograph of Benson Grist Mill
Photograph by NPS Staff ( Photo Credit: NPS ), Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Benson Mill

Built in 1988. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Benson Grist Mill is a restoration-replica museum located in Tooele County, Utah in the western United States, which allows visitors to see the inner workings of a latter-nineteenth-century pioneer gristmill. It has four other historic (nineteenth-century) buildings which have been moved onto the site, as well as four ancillary structures, including an open-air pavilion.”

Wikipedia article Benson Grist Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1988.

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. SW of Mills Junction on UT 138, Mills Junction, 84074
  • When was it listed? April 1972
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Tooele-Grantsville
  • When was it built? 1988
  • National Register reference number. 72001260 - 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

148 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Benson Mill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,974 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined76
Equipment and vehicle use26
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Debris and open burning8
Natural5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHARDY
8 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.6 acresNorthwest AreaPHEASANT
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeTRAIN
5 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTHE RAILROAD
3 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2,117 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeGREEN RAVINE
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeQUINTON
29 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeBIG CNY 2
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBROKEN ARROW

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Benson Mill: 12 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Iron, Copper, Lead. 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
Bates Canyon MineLead, Zinc, Copper, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Lake Point MineCopper, Lead, Silver, Iron, ArsenicPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Limonite, Pyrite, Realgar
Lake Point PlantHaliteProducerHalite
Mills Junction Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Mills Junction Gravel Pit No 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23007Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No 23007Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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.

Listed places nearby

1 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
Black Rock Site6.3 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72001260 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tooele CountyAll 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.