Austin-Wherritt House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Wasatch County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 315 E. Center, Heber City, 84032
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Census division. Heber City East
National Register reference number. 79002520 - 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

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Austin-Wherritt House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,200 acres in total. 14 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Debris and open burning	54
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Fireworks	19
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	3

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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SWEAT
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HEBER ASSIST 2
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SMITH FIRE
6 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DEER CREEK RAINBOW BAY
4 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	COYOTE LANE
30 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MIDWAY 6TH SO.
29 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Uintah and Ouray Agency	BWALLOW1
24 September 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HEBER CREEPER 6

Every fire recorded in Wasatch County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Austin-Wherritt House: 9 producers, 6 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Limestone, High Calcium. 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
Midway Hot Pot	Geothermal	Unknown
Midway Tufa Quarries	Limestone, High Calcium	Past Producer	Calcite
Park Heber Tunnel	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Phosphate Hill Prospect	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence	Collophane
Big Hollow Crushed Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Quartzite
Charleston Crushed Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Limestone, Quartzite
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26010	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wasatch County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heber City, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death 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
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber City	1 killed, 1 hurt, $1,000	Two men were canoeing on Jordanelle Reservoir when thunderstorm outflow winds estimated at 45mph (39kts) capsized the canoe. The men were thrown into the 34 degree water about 25 feet from shore, but they were pushed out further by the wind as they hung onto the canoe. They both became hypothermic, and the 27-year-old man let go of the canoe and drowned. The other man was rescued and sent to the hospital, where he recovered.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber City	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60-70 mph (52-61 kts) blew through portions of Heber City, blowing down trees and power lines and taking shingles off roofs.
August 2004	Lightning	Heber City	$15,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber City	$1,000	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Heber City	-	Near Jordanelle Reservoir
August 2006	Hail	Heber City	-	at Jordanelle Reservior
September 2005	Hail	Heber City	-	Large hail at Strawberry reservoir
June 1996	Hail	Heber City	-	no account filed
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wasatch 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
George Blackley House	0.2 miles	1985
Abram Hatch House	0.3 miles	1975
Wasatch Wave Publishing Company Building	0.3 miles	1979
Joseph S. Murdock House	0.3 miles	1987
Wasatch Saloon	0.3 miles	1980
Wasatch Stake Tabernacle and Heber Amusement Hall	0.4 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002520 in Record Group 79.
Wasatch County	All 38 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.