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Photograph of Anasazi State Park Museum
Photograph by Nickeyrc, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Coombs Village Site

Built in 1960. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Anasazi State Park Museum is a state park and museum in southern Utah, United States, featuring the ruins of an ancient Anasazi village referred to as the Coombs Village Site.”

Wikipedia article Anasazi State Park Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1976 · category: Site · built in 1960.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. UT 117, Boulder, 84716
  • When was it listed? January 1976
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Escalante
  • When was it built? 1960
  • National Register reference number. 76001815 - 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Coombs Village Site between 1992 and 2018, burning about 20 acres in total. 34 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
Natural34
Debris and open burning2

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
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestBALANCING ROCK
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestAIRPORT
13 September 2001Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestLONG NECK
7 August 2004Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestBOULDER CREEK
5 August 2018Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestOGDEN
4 August 2001Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestMOUNT OGDEN
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestSNEAK
20 August 1992Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestSADIE'S NIPPLE

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Coombs Village Site: 31 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Elenora #1Uranium, VanadiumProducer
Big HollowGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceAnhydrite, Gypsum
Big HollowGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
New Home BenchStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
New Home BenchStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Betty JackUraniumProducer
Black Cat #2UraniumProducer
Black Mtn.UraniumProducer
Blue RibbonUraniumProducer
BuffUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Garfield 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Boulder Elementary School0.1 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001815 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield CountyAll 26 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.