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Parowan Meetinghouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Parowan Meetinghouse, sometimes referred to as the Parowan Tabernacle or the Parowan Old Rock Church is a historic meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Parowan, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”

Wikipedia article Parowan Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Iron 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Center block of Main St., between Center and 100 South St., Parowan, 84761
  • When was it listed? May 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Parowan
  • National Register reference number. 76001818 - 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

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Parowan Meetinghouse between 1994 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeBROAD CYN
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCANYON ROAD
30 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeRED CANYON
29 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLOVELL
22 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouthwest Area400 WEST
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeP HILL
2 September 2001Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeVALENTINE
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest Area291 WEST

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Parowan Meetinghouse: 22 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Manganese. 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
Unnamed ProspectManganeseProspect1942
Grand Castle ProspectSilicaPast ProducerSurface
Grand Castle ProspectSilicaPast Producer
White Sands Nos 4 - 22 , and 35 - 37SilicaProducerPlacer
Cemetary Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cemetery Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerBasalt, Conglomerate, Quartzite, Sand, Sandstone
Dry Canyon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerBasalt, Sandstone
Dry Canyon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
East Parowan Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
East Parowan Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this property

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parowan, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 8 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2003Flash FloodParowan$25,000There was major flash flooding in the town of Parowan. Despite sandbagging efforts, 26 homes were flooded with 6 homes sustaining an estimated $25,000 dollars in damage. People were also stranded for a time in Yankee Meadow, and State Route 143 was closed due to mud and rock slides.
September 2013Flash FloodParowan$10,000Heavy rains caused flash flooding and a rockslide along State Route 143 between Parowan and Brian Head, with large boulders over the road.
July 2018Flash FloodParowan-The Utah Department of Transportation reported a debris flow after heavy rain fell over the Brianhead Fire burn scar. The flood waters temporarily closed State Route 143.
July 2018Flash FloodParowan-Heavy rain on the Brianhead Fire burn scar produced two debris flows that temporarily closed State Route 143.
July 2018Flash FloodParowan-State Route 143 was temporarily closed after heavy rain over the Brianhead Fire burn scar resulted in a debris flow that moved over the road.
August 2017Flash FloodParowan-Flash flooding along Parowan Creek spilled over onto Interstate 15, temporarily closing the right-hand lane of northbound Interstate 15.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindParowan-Winds blew down a tree which toppled power lines creating a power outage.
August 2003Flash FloodParowan-Flash flooding and rock slides were reported over Highway 143 southeast of Parowan.
July 2001Flash FloodParowan-Debris flowed over the highway in Parowan Canyon, and sandbags were used to protect homes from the rising water.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Jesse N. Smith Houseunder 500 feet1975
William and Julia Lyman House0.2 miles2000
Meeks-Green Farmstead0.4 miles1994
Ensign-Smith House4.3 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001818 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iron CountyAll 15 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.