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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
David B. Brinton House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Brinton, David B., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1981 E. 4800 South, Holladay, 84117
- When was it listed? May 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- National Register reference number. 78002665 - 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
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of David B. Brinton House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 515 acres in total. 14 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 | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | DEVONSHIRE 2 |
| 3 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | FERGUSON |
| 22 September 2020 | Natural | 60 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | NEFFS |
| 22 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | NEFFS WFU |
| 11 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | TOLCAT |
| 10 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | NEFF |
| 10 September 1997 | Natural | 15 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | OLYMPUS |
| 8 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.2 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MILL |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 80 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 80 workings within 5 miles of David B. Brinton House: 42 producers, 30 past producers, 8 occurrences. 42 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Minerals Mill | Barium-Barite | Producer | ||
| Alta Champion | Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth | Producer | Vein | |
| Big Mitt and Blue Point Mine | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1904 | |
| Canyon Rim Quarries | Limestone, General, Clay, Cement Rock | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| Dry Fork Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Midvale Minerals Co. | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic | Producer | ||
| Mortand Cement Limestone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Murray Copper and Victor Claims | Copper, Gold, Lead | Occurrence | 1912 | |
| National Tunnel and Mines Co. | Lead, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| New England | Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holladay, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Lightning | Holladay | 1 hurt, $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Lightning | Holladay | $300,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Holladay | $100,000 | A small tornado touched down in the Salt Lake City suburb of Holladay in the early evening hours. The F0 tornado ripped apart a sheet metal roof on the receiving dock of an Albertson's Supermarket, and a Goodyear Tire Store reported minor damage to the roof and a sign. Several cars at the tire store had their windows blown out as well. Luckily, there were no injuries reported. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Holladay | $500 | Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Holladay | - | Hail with a diameter of a penny was reported in Holladay. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holladay | - | The Olympus Hills sensor recorded a wind gust of 63 mph. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holladay | - | A severe thunderstorm produced a 78mph (68kts) wind gust in Holladay. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | David McDonald House | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
| Ross Hame | 0.7 miles | 2018 | |
| William and Annie Livingston House | 0.8 miles | 2002 | |
 | Brinton-Dahl House | 0.9 miles | 1980 |
 | Harold W. and Evelyn Burton House | 1.0 miles | 2017 |
 | Hawarden | 1.0 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002665 in Record Group 79. |
| Salt Lake County | All 399 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.