Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
From the record
“Smith House, located in Parowan, Utah, is a two-story home that was constructed from June 1856 to March 1858. Smith was asked by church leadership to assist in the settling of Parowan in 1851, where he constructed and lived in the house.”
Wikipedia article Jesse N. Smith House (Parowan, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 15 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75001807- 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
91 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Jesse N. Smith House
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 2 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
Natural
33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
30
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Debris and open burning
7
Recreation and ceremony
2
Fireworks
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Other causes
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
28 workings within 5 miles of Jesse N. Smith House: 24 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Manganese. 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
Parowan, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 8 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
There was major flash flooding in the town of Parowan. Despite sandbagging efforts, 26 homes were flooded with 6 homes sustaining an estimated $25,000 dollars in damage. People were also stranded for a time in Yankee Meadow, and State Route 143 was closed due to mud and rock slides.
The Utah Department of Transportation reported a debris flow after heavy rain fell over the Brianhead Fire burn scar. The flood waters temporarily closed State Route 143.
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
4 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.
Block
