Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument is a Utah state monument featuring a rock panel carved with one of the largest known collections of petroglyphs. It is located in San Juan County, along Utah State Route 211, 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Monticello and 53 miles (85 km) south of Moab.”
Wikipedia article Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1976 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.76001833- 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
25 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Indian Creek State Park
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 22 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
22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
10 workings within 5 miles of Indian Creek State Park: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Vanadium, Uranium, Copper, Uranium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Monticello, the town this property stands in, in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 11 heavy rain, 7 hail, 6 flash flood, 6 wildfire.
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.
Heavy rainfall of nearly three quarters of an inch was reported in the southwest part of Monticello which led to localized street flooding. Heavier amounts of precipitation fell in other portions of the city which also led to flooding of basements.
Persistent moderate to heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flooding and flash flooding across much of east central and southeast Utah, including San Juan County and Canyonlands National Park. In Canyonlands National Park many roads and trails were closed due to heavy rains and flooding. Around Needles Outpost, Highway 211 among other roads and trails were inundated with mud and water that made them impassable.
Rainfall of 2.22 inches fell within a 6 hour period at Cedar Point. About 1.50 inches of that rainfall occurred within 45 minutes beginning around 12:30 MST in the afternoon. Minor flooding was reported in the area.
Runoff from heavy rain in the Monticello area created flash flooding, with flowing water at least 6 inches deep across country roadways just south of Monticello.
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.
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.
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