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Photograph of Jabez Faux House and Barn
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Jabez Faux House And Barn

Built in 1867. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Jabez Faux House and Barn is a historic two-story house and a barn in Moroni, Utah. It was built in 1867 by Jabez Faux (b.1837), an immigrant from Yorkshire, England who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Moroni in 1860.”

Wikipedia article Jabez Faux House and Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1867.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Faux, Jabez, House And Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. UT 132, Moroni, 84646
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Mount Pleasant-Moroni
  • When was it built? 1867
  • National Register reference number. 76001835 - 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Jabez Faux House And Barn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 633 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 4 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWALES RESERVOIR
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSCRAP
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPIG FIRE
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremony515 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBLUE HILLS
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral AreaJERUSALEM
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBROTHERSON
11 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCACTI
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHAPMAN FIRE

Every fire recorded in Sanpete 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 Jabez Faux House And Barn: 23 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone, Dimension. 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
Moroni North Sandstone ProspectsStone, DimensionPast ProducerQuartz
Wales Tufa DepositCalciumOccurrence
Bruno's Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chester Ponds Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSandstone
Chester Ponds Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moroni Canal Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Ditch Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit #20023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20026Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20028Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sandstone

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moroni, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMoroni$10,000Thunderstorm/microburst winds destroyed roof on a turkey hatchery.
September 2009HailMoroni-Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported near Moroni.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Moroni High School Mechanical Arts Building0.4 miles1985
Moroni Opera House0.5 miles1996
Mortensen-Nelson House0.9 miles2003
Wales Co-operative Mercantile Institution3.9 miles2000
John T. Lewellyn House4.0 miles1980
Spring City School6.4 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete CountyAll 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.