Newton Reservoir

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Newton Dam is an earthen dam about a mile north of Newton, in Cache County, Utah, United States.”
Wikipedia article Newton Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Cache County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 3 mi. N of Newton, Newton, 84305
When was it listed? November 1973
Category. site
Census division. Lewiston
National Register reference number. 73001860 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Newton Reservoir between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,423 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined	22
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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
3 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LONG DIVIDE I
28 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HONEYVILLE ROADSIDE
22 September 2007	Debris and open burning	75 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TOP LOOP
19 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	V.W. FIRE
15 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TRACK
8 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SHORT DIVIDE
7 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LAYNE HARDY
4 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MP2SR142

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Newton Reservoir: 8 producers, 5 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Trenton Gravel Pit # 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Trenton Gravel Pit #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Highways Pit # 03006	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Rejected Pit # 03a	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit # 03003	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit # 03004	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #03004	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 03002	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #03002	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #03003	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newton, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Hail	Newton	-	Law enforcement in Cache County observed hail near Newton that they estimated to be the size of golf balls, or 1.75 inches in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Cache 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Martin Harris Gravesite	2.3 miles	1980
	Clarkston Tithing Granary	2.5 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cache County	All 80 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.