St. Mary Of The Assumption Church and School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Saint Mary of the Assumption is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Park City, Utah, United States, in the Diocese of Salt Lake City. Its historic former parish church, built in 1884 after a fire destroyed an earlier church during July 4 celebrations, is the oldest extant Catholic church in Utah and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article St. Mary of the Assumption Church and School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 121 Park Ave., Park City, 84060
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Census division. Park City
National Register reference number. 79002512 - 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary Of The Assumption Church and School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 591 acres in total. 11 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
9 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OLD RANCH
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	RICHARDSON FLATE
6 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GUARDSMAN PASS-CLOUD RIM
6 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BONANZA-CLOUD RIM
5 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DEER VALLEY
5 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GUARDSMAN PASS
4 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BRIGHTON ESTATES
30 September 2000	Fireworks	25 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ABILITY CENTER FIRE

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 215 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 215 workings within 5 miles of St. Mary Of The Assumption Church and School: 144 past producers, 36 occurrences, 30 producers, 5 prospects. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold. 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
American Flag Shaft	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	Galena, Tetrahedrite
American Flag Shaft	Gold, Silver, Manganese, Lead, Copper, Iron	Past Producer
American Flag Shaft No. 2	Silver, Lead, Gold, Iron, Manganese, Copper	Past Producer	Galena, Tetrahedrite
American Tunnel	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Vein
Anchor Tunnel Protal	Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Balmount Shaft	Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1907, 1925, 1952
California Mine	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Antimony, Sulfur	Past Producer
Central Wasatch Range Group	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium	Past Producer	Surface, Underground
Comstock Mine	Lead, Copper, Iron, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Constellation Shaft	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park City, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Park City	-	The PacifiCorp Aerie mesonet station near Park City measured an initial wind gust of 60 mph at 3:00 pm MST, followed by a peak wind gust of 65 mph at 3:10 pm MST, as a result of strong outflow from nearby convection.
May 2021	Hail	Park City	-	Penny-sized hail fell in Park City.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Park City	-	The Mount Baldy sensor at Deer Valley recorded a wind gust of 59 mph.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Park City	-	Dry Microburst

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
Wilson-Shields House	under 500 feet	1984
William H. Harris House	under 500 feet	1984
James R. and Mary E. Sullivan House	under 500 feet	1984
James Cassidy House	under 500 feet	1984
Matthew Urie House	under 500 feet	1984
Nicholas Rowe House	under 500 feet	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002512 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.