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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
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Henry J. Wheeler Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- Listed as. Wheeler, Henry J., Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 6343 S. 900 East, Murray, 84121
- When was it listed? May 1976
- Category. building
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- National Register reference number. 76001832 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Henry J. Wheeler Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TONYA |
| 11 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | TOLCAT |
| 1 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | QUAIL HOLLOW |
| 6 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | POLE CAT |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | MILLVILLE CANYON |
| 31 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BINGHAM ASSIST |
| 2 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CANYON COVE |
| 12 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | FERGNSON |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 85 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 85 workings within 5 miles of Henry J. Wheeler Farm: 42 producers, 33 past producers, 10 occurrences. 42 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Minerals Mill | Barium-Barite | Producer | ||
| Alta Champion | Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth | Producer | Vein | |
| Big Mitt and Blue Point Mine | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1904 | |
| Blue Jay Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Dry Fork Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Interstate Brick Quartzite Quarry | Silica | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Midvale Minerals Co | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic | Past Producer | ||
| Midvale Minerals Co. | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic | Producer | ||
| Mortand Cement Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Murray Copper and Victor Claims | Copper, Gold, Lead | Occurrence | 1912 |
Storms near this property
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murray, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murray | $250,000 | Power lines were snapped in Murray, with multiple large trees uprooted throughout town. Carport and car damage occurred, as did damage to business signs and rooftops. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murray | $5,000 | Extensive roof damage from large tree on house. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Murray | $5,000 | Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Murray | $500 | Shortly after the above thunderstorms moved out of the area, new thunderstorms redeveloped in the same area. Again, the remainder of the county was hardly touched. In Sandy, the hail piled up to a depth of 2 inches. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles. These thunderstorms also had frequent lightning. Lightning that struck a tree in Draper caused a very large branch to fall on some cars in a church parking lot. The damage to the cars was $30,000. The electric current from a nearby lightning strike worked its way into a house in Sandy destroying a television set. Brief heavy rainfall from these thunderstorms caused minor urban flooding. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Murray | - | One inch hail was reported in Murray. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Murray | - | Hail with a diameter of approximately 0.75 inches was observed near Murray. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Murray | - | Heavy rain fell along the eastern Salt Lake Valley, 1-1.3" in an hour fell from Murray to East MIllcreek. |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dyre & Maria Amundsen House | 1.0 miles | 2015 | |
 | Ray F. and Ethel Smith House | 1.1 miles | 2019 |
 | Fitzgerald House | 1.4 miles | |
| Edward and Harriet Rosenbaum House | 1.4 miles | 2020 | |
| Erickson Artillo Dairy Farmhouse | 1.4 miles | 2015 | |
| Thomas & Margaret Taylor House | 1.4 miles | 2020 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76001832 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Salt Lake County | All 399 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.