Water Lily Shaft

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Water Lily Shaft near Eureka, Utah was dug during 31 days in 1921 and won a "World Champion Shaft Sinking" competition. Company using Waugh Clipper Drills, and set a record of "427.5 feet of vertical, three-compartment shaft" being dug in a 31-day period.”
Wikipedia article Water Lily Shaft, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Eureka, Eureka
When was it listed? March 1979
Category. site
Also known as. Tintic Mining District MRA
Census division. Goshen
National Register reference number. 79003489 - 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 Water Lily Shaft between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,109 acres in total. 40 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	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
18 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PINYON CREEK
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ILLEGAL BURN
11 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	PINYON C2
10 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	DAGMAR
10 September 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ATLANTIS

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 282 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 282 workings within 5 miles of Water Lily Shaft: 132 past producers, 121 occurrences, 17 producers, 12 prospects. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Lead, Silver, Iron, 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
Ajax Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Conichalcite, Copper, Enargite, Olivenite
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
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
Burgin No 1 and No 2 Shaft	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, Cadmium	Past Producer	1956, 1965, 1978
Carisa Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Utah 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

5 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
Charcoal Kilns	1.0 miles	1979
Lime Kilns	1.3 miles	1979
Yankee Headframe	3.4 miles	1979
Beck No. 2 Mine	3.6 miles	1979
Eureka Lilly Headframe	5.1 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003489 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Utah County	All 183 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.