Hans Peter Olsen House

Built in 1877. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Hans Peter Olsen House, on Utah State Route 11 in Fountain Green, Utah, United States, was built in 1877. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article Hans Peter Olsen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1877.

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.
Listed as. Olsen, Hans Peter, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. UT 11, Fountain Green, 84632
When was it listed? April 1976
Category. building
Census division. Mount Pleasant-Moroni
When was it built? 1877
National Register reference number. 76001834 - 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Hans Peter Olsen House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49,061 acres in total. 22 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
Natural	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
4 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	POLLY'S PEAK
29 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CAPT. LARSON
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1,586 acres	Richfield Field Office	POLLYS PEAK
15 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Central Area	JERUSALEM
12 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	STARLING
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BROTHERSON
11 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CACTI
9 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HWY 132

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hans Peter Olsen House: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
North Fountain Green Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No. 20017	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20012	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20013	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20014	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways,Pit No.20015	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Green, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 5 flash flood, 2 debris flow. 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 2012	Flash Flood	Fountain Green	$100,000	A large debris flow occurred at the Wood Hollow burn scar. This debris flow damaged multiple homes, with two homes in particular receiving significant damage. The main damage was caused by mud flowing into basements, with one home having muddy water pooled as much as 8 feet deep in the basement. In addition, the debris crossed over State Route 132 and closed the road for several hours.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Fountain Green	$25,000	Debris from the Salt Creek burn scar pushed mud and debris into several homes in Fountain Green. Damage amounts were estimated as clean-up costs.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Fountain Green	$20,000	An ash flow was reported after heavy rain fell over the Wood Hollow burn scar. Parts of Wood Hollow Road were washed out due to this flash flood.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Fountain Green	-	Utah State Route 132 was temporarily closed at Milepost 37 due to flooding and debris on the roadway.
August 2013	Debris Flow	Fountain Green	-	A large debris flow came off of the Wood Hollow Fire burn scar following heavy rainfall. The flow was generally 3 feet deep, and ran 4 miles out of the burn scar, but did not impact the town of Fountain Green.
August 2013	Debris Flow	Fountain Green	-	Heavy rain over the Wood Hollow Fire burn scar resulted in a debris flow, with mud crossing over State Route 132 between Fountain Green and Moroni.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Fountain Green	-	Heavy rain once again produced a debris flow on the Salt Creek scar. In 15 minutes, 0.97 in rainfall was recorded at a local RAWS.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Andrew Barentsen House	0.4 miles	1983
Fountain Green Hydroelectric Plant Historic District	1.2 miles	1989
Fountain Green Hydroelectric Plant Historic District	2.2 miles	1989
Jabez Faux House And Barn	6.9 miles	1976
Moroni High School Mechanical Arts Building	7.1 miles	1985
Moroni Opera House	7.4 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001834 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete County	All 83 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.