Eureka City Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Eureka City Cemetery, located west of Eureka, Utah, United States, was established at its current location in 1894 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Eureka City Cemetery (Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Juab County · listed in 1979 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. SW of Eureka off US 50, Eureka
When was it listed? March 1979
Category. site
Also known as. Tintic Mining District MRA
Census division. Eureka
National Register reference number. 79003469 - 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Eureka City Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,642 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 5 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
Natural	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	260 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	WATERWELL
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GREAT EASTERN
20 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	JUNCTION TREE
11 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Richfield Field Office	ROUGH
10 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	DAGMAR
1 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.7 acres	Richfield Field Office	LONESOME PINE
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	WESTEUREKA
8 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TINK STANDARD 2

Every fire recorded in Juab County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 396 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 396 workings within 5 miles of Eureka City Cemetery: 212 past producers, 156 occurrences, 14 producers, 13 prospects. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Lead, Silver, Iron. 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
Ajax Mine	Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Iron	Occurrence
Beck Tunnel Consolidated Mining Co	Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Bingham Mines Co? Adits	Lead, Cadmium, Silver	Occurrence	Surface/Underground
Black Dragon	Gold, Silver, Clay	Occurrence	Replacement
Black Jack	Silver, Iron, Manganese, Gold	Past Producer	Contact Metasomatic
Boss Tweed Mine	Copper, Bismuth, Silver, Gold, Antimony, Lead, Arsenic	Prospect	Replacement
Brooklyn and Wedgewood Group	Manganese, Clay, Iron	Occurrence	Surface/Underground
Bullion Beck and Champion	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	Replacement
Bullion-Beck	Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	1882
Carisa Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Juab County

Storms near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Eureka	-	Measured by Tintic HS AWS sensor

Every storm recorded in Juab 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
Fitch Cemetery	0.6 miles	1979
Centennial-Eureka Mine	1.3 miles	1979
Eureka Historic District	1.5 miles	1979
US Post Office-Eureka Main	1.6 miles	1989
Grand Central Mine	1.7 miles	1979
Tintic Smelter Site	2.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003469 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Juab County	All 21 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.