Denver and Rio Grande Lime Kiln

Built in 1882. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Denver and Rio Grande Lime Kiln, in Emery County, Utah near Cleveland, is a lime kiln which was built in 1881-82. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Denver and Rio Grande Lime Kiln, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Emery County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure · built in 1882.

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. SE of Cleveland, Cleveland
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. structure
Census division. Castle Dale-Huntington
When was it built? 1882
National Register reference number. 80003901 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Denver and Rio Grande Lime Kiln between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7 acres in total. 10 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
17 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	JOHNSON
16 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	BULL HOLLOW
9 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	CEDAR MOUNTAIN
3 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PRICE ASSIST III
22 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	WIMMER
15 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	BEGAY
30 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	MUD SPRINGS

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Denver and Rio Grande Lime Kiln: 9 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Manganese, Manganese, Iron, Iron. 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
Bob Hill Spring Manganese Deposit	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Hematite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite
Bob Hill Spring Manganese Deposit	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence
C Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Occurrence	Psilomelane
C Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Occurrence
Cedar Mountain No.4	Manganese	Prospect	1952
D Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Occurrence	Psilomelane
D Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Occurrence
Right Fork Bull Hollow Deposits	Uranium	Occurrence	Tyuyamunite, Uraninite
School Sec. 36 N2, S2	Uranium	Producer
South Rim	Uranium	Occurrence	Surface

Every working recorded in Emery County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2011	Lightning	Cleveland	1 killed	A 56-year-old man was with his family near the Wedge Overlook in the San Rafael Desert when he was struck by lightning. CPR was performed by family members and emergency personnel who responded to the scene, but he was unable to be revived and died at the scene.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Cleveland	$35,000	Buckhorn Draw Road was washed out, with a car on road washed a quarter mile down the road. Four people were rescued due to flash flooding.

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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	San Rafael Bridge	7.7 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003901 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emery County	All 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.