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Photograph of Peter Johansen House
Photograph by Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Peter Johansen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Peter Johansen House is a historic house in Castle Dale, Utah. It was built with bricks from Provo in 1912 for Peter Johansen II, the son of Danish immigrants who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”

Wikipedia article Peter Johansen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Emery County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Johansen, Peter, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N of Castle Dale off UT 29, Castle Dale, 84513
  • When was it listed? March 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Castle Dale-Huntington
  • National Register reference number. 80003900 - 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

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Peter Johansen House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeDANISH BENCH
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJAKE
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAGNUSON 57
31 August 2006Debris and open burning1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCASTLE DALE
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCOAL
10 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSoutheast AreaCOAL HAUL ROAD
3 June 2016Debris and open burning2.5 acresMoab Field Office1100 SOUTH FARM
16 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMoab Field OfficeHWY10 MM36

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Peter Johansen House: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
Cedar, Buzzard, and Johnson BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceLimestone, Sandstone
Cottonwood Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Cottonwood Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huntington & Cottonwood BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Huntington and Cottonwood BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceLimestone, Sandstone
Huntington and Cottonwood BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceLimestone, Sandstone
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08016Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah State Dept of Highways Pit # 08014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Utah State Highway Dept. Pit 08016Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Emery County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Dale, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCastle Dale$10,000TSTM wind gust blew roof off buliding
September 2013HailCastle Dale-Hail with a diameter of one inch was reported in Castle Dale.
August 2006HailCastle Dale-Nickle to quarter size hail.
August 2005HailCastle Dale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emery 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Castle Dale High School Shop0.7 miles1985
Castle Dale School0.9 miles1978
Paul C. Christensen House0.9 miles1980
Justis Wellington II Seeley House1.1 miles1979
Castle Dale Bridge1.2 miles2019
Leander Lemmon House7.5 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003900 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emery CountyAll 16 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.