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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Juab County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Grand Central Mine
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Mammoth, Mammoth, 84628
- When was it listed? March 1979
- Category. building
- Also known as. Tintic Mining District MRA
- Census division. Eureka
- National Register reference number. 79003480 - 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
71 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Grand Central Mine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,023 acres in total. 27 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
| 23 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | EUREKA S CURVE |
| 20 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | JUNCTION TREE |
| 2 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | HERD |
| 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 |
| 9 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | KEG SP. |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 414 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 414 workings within 5 miles of Grand Central Mine: 213 past producers, 168 occurrences, 17 producers, 15 prospects. 18 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax Mine | Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Apex Standard Mine | Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1923 | |
| 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 | Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | 1882 | |
| Burgin No 1 and No 2 Shaft | Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, Cadmium | Past Producer | 1956, 1965, 1978 |
Storms near this property
1 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mammoth, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2023: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mammoth | - | The Eureka Ridge mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 69 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eureka Historic District | 0.4 miles | 1979 | |
 | Mammoth Historic District | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
| Centennial-Eureka Mine | 0.6 miles | 1979 | |
 | US Post Office-Eureka Main | 1.2 miles | 1989 |
 | Union Pacific Railroad Depot | 1.5 miles | 1979 |
| Knightsville School Foundation | 1.5 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79003480 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.