Summit County Courthouse

Built in 1903 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Summit County Courthouse in Coalville, Utah, on Main St., was built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Summit County Courthouse (Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1903, Romanesque Revival 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Coalville, 84017
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. building
Census division. Coalville
When was it built? 1903
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78002694 - 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Summit County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	46
Natural	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Recreation and ceremony	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Fireworks	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2

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
9 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	POWERLINE
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	169 ECHO
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PJ FIRE
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TURNER HOLLOW
30 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	161 I80
3 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SPRING CANYON 161
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northeast Area	ECHO DAM
26 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CENTERLINE

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Summit County Courthouse: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Badger Island Section of Prospect Mt. Quartzite	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence	Quartzite
South Echo Utah Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
South Echo Utah Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ut. Dept of Hwys Pit No 22008	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Ut. Dept. of Hwys Pit No 22015	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Highway Pit No 22008	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coalville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2014	Flood	Coalville	$40,000	Much of the precipitation remained as rain in Coalville, and two straight days of rain proved to be too much for one of the open culverts in the town. When that drainage system failed to handle the volume of water, four homes were flooded along 150 South in Coalville, with two of those homes experiencing extensive flooding. One of the significantly damaged homes was flooded with a couple feet of water, and the other had 6 inches of water.
April 2011	Flood	Coalville	-	Chalk Creek near Coalville rose as high as 1496 cfs, up from a mere 60 cfs from three days prior, and above the flood stage of 1341 cfs. These flood waters approached homes upstream from Coalville, and threatened bridges along the creek, including water flowing over the bridge at Border Station Road.
September 2007	Hail	Coalville	-	Hail with 0.75 inch diameter was reported in Coalville; the time was estimated from television reports.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Coalville	-	Thunderstorm outflow produced a measured gust at 66 mph.
May 1998	Hail	Coalville	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Coalville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Boyden Block	under 500 feet	2009
Thomas L. Allen House	under 500 feet	1982
John Boyden House	0.2 miles	1982
Thomas and Jane Beech House	0.2 miles	2001
Annie Birch House	2.2 miles	1984
Samuel P. Hoyt House	3.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002694 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit County	All 111 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.