Swett Ranch

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Swett Ranch is a ranch in Daggett County, Utah, United States, a part of which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article Swett Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Daggett County · listed in 1979 · category: District · built in 1909.

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

The listing

Address. NE of Dutch John, Dutch John, 84023
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. district
Census division. West Daggett
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number. 79002492 - 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Swett Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 352 acres in total. 87 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	87
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	not named
8 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	not named
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	CANYON RIM
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	CEDAR
5 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	not named
4 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	LAKE CREEK
29 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	SPRUCE CREEK
27 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ashley National Forest	CHICKEN SPRING

Every fire recorded in Daggett County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Swett Ranch: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Uranium, Gold. 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
	Gold Point	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
	Yellow Canary Uranium Deposit	Copper, Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Daggett 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002492 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Daggett County	All 4 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.