Starr Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

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

Sources: 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 46 mi. S of Hanksville, Hanksville
When was it listed? April 1976
Category. site
Census division. East Garfield
National Register reference number. 76001816 - 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

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Starr Ranch between 1994 and 2012, burning about 160 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10

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
4 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	STAR SPRING
28 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	GOLD CREEK
4 August 1994	Natural	5.0 acres	Richfield Field Office	EASTSADDLE
4 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	HILLERS
1 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	STARSPRING
29 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	DOOR BELL
24 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	PENNELLCRK
27 June 2006	Natural	5.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GOLDCREEK

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Starr Ranch: 20 past producers, 12 producers, 8 occurrences, 1 prospect. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vanadium, Uranium. 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
Henry Mountains Deposit	Titanium, Metal, Iron, Zirconium, Thorium	Occurrence
Indian Spring Bench	Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Thorium	Occurrence	Fossil Placer
Indian Spring Bench	Thorium, Titanium, Zirconium	Occurrence
Star Mine	Copper, Molybdenum, Silver	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite
Star Mine	Silver, Molybdenum, Copper	Past Producer
Rats Nest	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Replacement
Rose Ann	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Replacement
Woodruff Spring	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Replacement
La Mar	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer
Rats Nest	Vanadium, Uranium	Past Producer

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001816 in Record Group 79.
Garfield County	All 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.