Wasatch Academy

Built in 1875. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Wasatch Academy is an independent, coeducational college-preparatory boarding school in Mount Pleasant, Utah. Presbyterian minister Duncan McMillan founded the school in 1875.”
Wikipedia article Wasatch Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1978 · category: District · built in 1875.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Off U.S. 89, Mount Pleasant, 84647
When was it listed? October 1978
Category. district
Census division. Mount Pleasant-Moroni
When was it built? 1875
National Register reference number. 78002690 - 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Wasatch Academy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 882 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 7 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	23
Natural	14
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SKYLINE MTN
4 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SCRAP
4 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PIG FIRE
4 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SP FIRE
4 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	515 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BLUE HILLS
4 September 2001	Natural	75 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SCRUB
26 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Central Area	MOUNTAINVILLE
25 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Richfield Field Office	700 SOUTH

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Wasatch Academy: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. 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
Round Hills Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20007	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20008	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20009	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20010	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20011	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20025	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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
Frederick C. Jensen House	under 500 feet	1982
William Stuart Seeley House	0.1 miles	1992
N. S. Nielson House	0.2 miles	1982
41 West Main Street	0.2 miles	1979
40 West Main Street	0.2 miles	1979
Mount Pleasant Carnegie Library	0.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002690 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.