Photograph of Helper Historic District — Photograph by Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

52 S Main Street

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Helper Historic District is a historic district comprising the center of Helper, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article Helper Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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 288 buildingss, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Roughly bounded by Maple (400 South), Bryner (600 West), Ridgeway (500 East), and E (450 North) Sts., Helper, 84526
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. building
Census division. Helper
National Register reference number. 79002491 - 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of 52 S Main Street between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,389 acres in total. 68 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	68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Recreation and ceremony	15
Debris and open burning	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2
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
8 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	MARSING
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CARBONVILLE
8 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Moab Field Office	LYNETTE
7 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WOODHILL
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	CONSUMERS
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Southeast Area	MEADS WASH
5 September 2015	Natural	2.6 acres	Moab Field Office	HARDSCRABBLE
5 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	PEERLESS

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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 52 S Main Street: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 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	Recorded
Lowdermilk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Limestone, Sandstone
Lowdermilk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #04009	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04009	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Limestone, Sandstone

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Helper, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 deaths and 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
July 2006	Flash Flood	Helper	2 killed, 1 hurt	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Helper	-	Quarter size with some larger hail.
August 2002	Hail	Helper	-	A severe thunderstorm with large hail moved through Carbon County. Several reports of ping pong to golf ball sized hail (1 1/2 to 2 inch) were received in and around Helper and Price. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
US Post Office-Helper Main	under 500 feet	1989
Verde Homestead	0.2 miles	2007
Clerico Commercial Building	0.9 miles	1999
Martin Millarich Hall	1.6 miles	1980
Camillo Manina House	1.9 miles	1999
Topolovec Farmstead	2.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002491 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon County	All 26 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.