Joseph William Parker Farm

Built in 1892 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Joseph William Parker Farm, in Sevier County, Utah, near Joseph, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The listing includes seven contributing buildings on 2.5 acres (1.0 ha).”
Wikipedia article Joseph William Parker Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Sevier County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · built in 1892, Victorian architecture.

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 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Parker, Joseph William, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2.5 mi. NE of Joseph, Joseph, 84739
When was it listed? March 1977
Category. building
Census division. Monroe
When was it built? 1892
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 77001318 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Joseph William Parker Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 46 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
Natural	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Firearms and explosives use	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2020	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Central Area	JOE TOWN
4 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	not named
27 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Area	WASHBURN
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	RIVER BOTTOM 2
23 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	LC
18 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Area	JONES ROAD 2
16 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	not named
8 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	NORTH SOUTH CANYON

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Joseph William Parker Farm: 13 past producers, 12 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Geothermal, Clay. 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	Recorded
Elsinore Clay Deposit	Clay	Past Producer
Monroe Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
Elsinore Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Elsinore Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21004	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21005	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21006	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21007	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21008	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sevier 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
Elsinore White Rock Schoolhouse	3.3 miles	1978
Soren Simonsen House	4.1 miles	1982
Monroe Presbyterian Church	4.2 miles	1980
Monroe City Hall	4.2 miles	1985
Elsinore Sugar Factory	4.2 miles	1980
Sevier Ward Church	5.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001318 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sevier County	All 20 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.