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Photograph of Wendover Air Force Base
Photograph by John Stanton - CC-BY-SA (see permission; all content licensed under CC-BY-SA ), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

B-29 Bombers Hangar

Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Wendover Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base in Utah now known as Wendover Airport. During World War II, it was a training base for B-17 and B-24 bomber crews.”

Wikipedia article Wendover Air Force Base, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1940.

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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. S of Wendover off U.S. 40, Wendover, 84083
  • When was it listed? July 1975
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Dugway-Wendover
  • When was it built? 1940
  • National Register reference number. 75001827 - 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of B-29 Bombers Hangar between 1999 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
17 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreElko District OfficeOLA
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILDCAT ASSIST
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresElko District OfficeLEPPY
7 July 2007Fireworks40 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeMONTEGO
23 June 1999Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeI80MM408

Every fire recorded in Tooele 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 B-29 Bombers Hangar: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Leppy Peak Sand DunesSilicaOccurrenceQuartz
Reilly-Wendover PlantPotassium, Magnesite, SaltPlant1914, 1917
Utah Salt Co.SaltProducer
Wendover Quad. Sand DunesGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Bonneville Ltd. Potash PlantBromineProducer1914, 1939
WendoverStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Wendover Quad. Subsurface BrinesBromineProducer1914, 1917
Wendover QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Best Western Motel CutsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSurface
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this property

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wendover, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2013: 8 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWendover$4,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindWendover$500no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWendover-The Wendover Peak sensor recorded a wind gust of 58 mph.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWendover-A thunderstorm produced a dry Microburst wind gust of 59 mph (51 kts) at the Wendover Airport.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindWendover-A dry thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 61 mph (53 kts) at the airport in Wendover.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWendover-The Port of Entry office at Wendover estimated thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph.
July 1996HailWendover-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWendover-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWendover-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75001827 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.
  • 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.