Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“The Ute Mountain Fire Tower is a fire lookout tower in the Ashley National Forest in western Daggett County, Utah, United States, southwest of Manila, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Ute Mountain Fire Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Daggett County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure · built in 1937.
National Register reference number.80003895- 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
31 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Ute Mountain Fire Tower
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 24 started naturally. None 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
24
Recreation and ceremony
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Ute Mountain Fire Tower: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Phosphorus-Phosphates. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Manila, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2009: 6 hail, 4 lightning, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain.
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.
Flash flooding caused debris and water to flow over Highway 43 between mile markers 2 and 3. Several inches of water was also reported running across Highway 44. Big rocks also fell across roadways near Sheep Creek. A lot of debris flowed into nearby canals, and the Sheep Creek irrigation canal overflowed. A dirt road to Sols Canyon was washed out, as well as E. 3rd Road in Manila, and a settling pond was also washed out. Flooding also damaged several fields of crops, fences, landscaping, and irrigation systems. Water and mud entered a church basement and garages of some residences. Hail also caused crop damage. Rainfall of 2 inches in 1 hour was reported.
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.
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.
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