Photograph of Dr. John Parsons Cabin Complex — Photograph by Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dr. John Parson Cabin Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“John Parsons Cabin Complex is a historic pioneer settlement on the Green River in the Browns Park region of Daggett County, Utah. Parsons, a rancher and physician from Denver, settled at the site between 1874 and 1876.”
Wikipedia article Dr. John Parsons Cabin Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Daggett County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Parson, Dr. John, Cabin Complex - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. SW of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, 84023
When was it listed? November 1976
Category. building
Census division. East Daggett
National Register reference number. 76001812 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Dr. John Parson Cabin Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 40 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	40
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	RYE GRASS
5 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	RED KNOLL
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	JARVIE RAN
15 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	RYE CANYON
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	TAYLOR
10 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	I.C.
4 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	WILLOW
4 August 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	Vernal Field Office	SWALLOW CY

Every fire recorded in Daggett County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Dr. John Parson Cabin Complex: 8 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Volcanic Materials, Copper. 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
Unknown	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence
Yellow Canary	Uranium	Unknown	Surface, Underground
Jesse Ewing Canyon	Copper, Iron	Past Producer
Jesse Ewing Canyon Claim	Copper, Iron	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chrysocolla, Hematite, Limonite
Browns Park Siliceous Tuff Occurrence	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence	Tuff
Jesse Ewing Siliceous Tuff	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence	Tuff
Swallow Canyon Siliceous Tuff Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence	Tuff
Alteration Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Browns Park Siliceous Tuff	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Jesse Ewing Siliceous Tuff	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Daggett 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

1 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
	John Jarvie Historic Ranch District	2.9 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001812 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Daggett County	All 4 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.