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Martin Harris Gravesite

Built in 1875. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Martin Harris Gravesite, in a cemetery in Cache County, Utah overlooking the town of Clarkston, Utah, is a gravesite from 1875 with a monument placed in 1925. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”

Wikipedia article Martin Harris Gravesite, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Cache County · listed in 1980 · category: Site · built in 1875.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Harris, Martin, Gravesite - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N of Clarkston, Clarkston, 84305
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Lewiston
  • When was it built? 1875
  • National Register reference number. 80003890 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Martin Harris Gravesite between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,559 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined20
Natural11
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHONEYVILLE ROADSIDE
22 September 2007Debris and open burning75 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTOP LOOP
2 September 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDARREL GODFREY
19 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsV.W. FIRE
8 August 1998Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHORT DIVIDE
7 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLAYNE HARDY
5 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWASHBOARD
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMP2SR142

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Martin Harris Gravesite: 6 producers, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Trenton Gravel Pit # 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trenton Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys Rejected Pit # 03aSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit # 03003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit # 03004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 03002Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #03002Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #03003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Rejected Pit #03-ASand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkston, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2015: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015HailClarkston-One inch diameter hail was reported near Clarkston.
May 2014HailClarkston-Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported near Clarkston, Utah.

Every storm recorded in Cache 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Clarkston Tithing Granary1.1 miles1985
Newton Reservoir2.3 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003890 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cache CountyAll 80 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.