Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“The Gustav Becker House is located at 2408 Van Buren Avenue, in Ogden, Utah, United States. It was built around 1915 based on Frank Lloyd Wright's "A Fireproof House for $5,000" published in Ladies' Home Journal in April 1907.”
Wikipedia article Gustav Becker House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 75 National Register listings published here for Weber County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77001327- 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
145 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Gustav Becker House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,671 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
46
Natural
28
Recreation and ceremony
18
Arson/incendiarism
15
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Fireworks
9
Debris and open burning
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
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
38 workings within 5 miles of Gustav Becker House: 19 prospects, 9 past producers, 7 producers, 2 unknowns.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Ogden, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 2 lightning.
The reports record 8 injuries. 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.
A UTA bus driver was waiting outside his bus for passengers in South Ogden when it started to rain. As he put up his umbrella a nearby bolt of lightning glanced his umbrella and shot down through his right arm He felt a burning sensation in his body and after driving a mile he decided to get medical attention. His injuries turned out to be very minor for this lucky man.
Severe thunderstorms blew through Weber County from South Ogden to Liberty, producing damaging winds, hail and heavy rain. Trees were reported down on a home and cars in Ogden, along with basement flooding of homes and some businesses. Trees in Liberty were toppled, with .83 inches of rain reported in 10 minutes.
A trained spotter discovered multiple snapped trees from severe wind gusts associated from a thunderstorm within Leavitts Mortuary and Aultorest Memorial Park in Ogden.
Dry Microburst wind gusts to 60 mph (52 kts) were recorded in South Ogden. Winds from the same cell knocked over several large tents set up at Hill AFB for an air show.
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.
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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