Hole-In-The-Rock

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Hole in the Rock is a narrow and steep crevice in the western rim of Glen Canyon, in southern Utah in the western United States. Together with another canyon on the eastern side of the Colorado River, it provided a route through what would otherwise be a large area of impassable terrain.”
Wikipedia article Hole in the Rock (rock formation), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Kane County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. SE of Escalante in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Escalante, 84533
When was it listed? November 1975
Category. site
Census division. Kanab
National Register reference number. 75000165 - 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

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Hole-In-The-Rock between 1997 and 2007, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 July 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	BARRETT
22 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	MATCHES
12 July 1997	Fireworks	under an acre	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	BARE FISTS
25 October 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.9 acres	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	LLEWELLYN

Every fire recorded in Kane 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 75000165 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kane County	All 13 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.