BlockFrom the record
One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Howe Flume Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- Address. NE of Oakley on Wasatch National Forest, Oakley, 82930
- When was it listed? December 1978
- Category. district
- Census division. Kamas
- National Register reference number. 78002695 - 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
45 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Howe Flume Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 546 acres in total. 18 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 | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | SUPERBOWL |
| 7 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | BAKER LAKE |
| 3 September 1996 | Smoking | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | ROAD HOLLOW |
| 2 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | HAYDEN |
| 18 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | TWO DOG |
| 14 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | CHRISTMAS |
| 14 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | STUMP |
| 8 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | SULPHUR |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Howe Flume Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Calcium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sulphur Prospect | Sulfur | Occurrence | Sulfur | |
| Utah Marblehead Lime Company | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Stillwater | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Stillwater Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakley, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Hail | Oakley | - | NIckle with some quarter size stones |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002695 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.