Hans Peter Nielson Gristmill

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Hans Peter Nielson Gristmill, also known as the Bicknell Gristmill, in Wayne County, Utah near Bicknell, Utah, was built around 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Hans Peter Nielson Gristmill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1890.

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.
Listed as. Nielson, Hans Peter, Gristmill - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3 mi. SE of Bicknell, Bicknell, 84715
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. building
Census division. Loa
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 75001835 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Hans Peter Nielson Gristmill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	25
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
26 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	COZY COVE
11 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	ROCKY RIDGE
1 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	BULLBERRY
30 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	not named
27 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	LOOKOUT
26 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	BLACK RIDGE
26 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Dixie National Forest	CEDAR
20 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	BRONX

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Hans Peter Nielson Gristmill: 8 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Copper, Vanadium. 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
Birch Spring Prospect	Uranium, Copper, Vanadium	Occurrence	Brochantite, Chalcanthite
Black Ridge Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Alabaster
Black Ridge Gysum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Big Hollow Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Big Hollow Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Catherine Black Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Durfee Canyon Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Durfee Canyon Gravel Pit.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Rock Canyon Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Rock Canyon Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bicknell, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 3 flash flood. 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
August 2023	Flash Flood	Bicknell	$1,000	Flooding was reported in the town of Bicknell, with water flowing across streets.
August 2001	Flash Flood	Bicknell	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the Bicknell and Torrey areas. Flood waters spilled across Highway 24, and also reached the Capitol Reef National Park area as a six foot wall of water down Hall's Creek.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Bicknell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Teasdale Tithing Granary	2.6 miles	1985
Wayne County High School	3.0 miles	1985
Charles W. and Leah Lee House	4.6 miles	1996
Torrey Log Church-Schoolhouse	5.0 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 18 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.