Oljato Trading Post

Built in 1921. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Oljato Trading Post was a trading post located on the western edge of Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 20, 1980.”
Wikipedia article Oljato Trading Post, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1921.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Blanding, Blanding, 84536
When was it listed? June 1980
Category. building
Census division. Oljato
When was it built? 1921
National Register reference number. 80003939 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Oljato Trading Post: 10 past producers, 10 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Copper, Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Mitton Mine	Vanadium	Past Producer
Skyline Road	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Copper Point	Copper, Uranium	Occurrence	Malachite
Mitten No. 1	Uranium, Vanadium, Copper	Past Producer	Carnotite, Malachite, Torbernite, Tyuyamunite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Mitton No.1-Skyline	Uranium, Vanadium	Occurrence
Monument 3	Copper, Uranium	Occurrence	Malachite, Tyuyamunite
Oljeto	Uranium, Copper	Past Producer	Malachite, Torbernite, Uranophane
Skyline	Copper, Uranium	Past Producer	Underground
Skyline Mine	Uranium, Copper	Past Producer	1948
Taylor Reid #1 & 2	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Tyuyamunite, Uraninite

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this property

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanding, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 wildfire, 5 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Blanding	$175,000	no account filed
June 2015	Flash Flood	Blanding	$30,000	Heavy rainfall resulted in a flash flood within Arch Canyon with fast moving water at least four feet deep. An SUV that was parked along the Arch Canyon Trail road was carried down the canyon about 2.2 miles. The people who owned the SUV were camped on higher ground and had to hike out of the canyon for assistance after the flood waters subsided.
September 2013	Hail	Blanding	$20,000	Large hail damaged a number of vehicles and broke windows.
June 2020	Hail	Blanding	-	A severe thunderstorm produced large hail estimated to be the size of half dollars west-northwest of Blanding.
June 2020	Hail	Blanding	-	A severe thunderstorm produced large hail measured to be the size of golf balls in Blanding.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Blanding	-	The Blanding Cooperative Observer estimated a peak wind gust of 75 mph.
October 2015	Hail	Blanding	-	Quarter-sized hail pounded an area near Blanding for about five minutes.
September 2013	Hail	Blanding	-	Quarter size hail fell along Highway 191 about seven miles north of Blanding as reported by the sheriff's office.
July 2007	Heavy Rain	Blanding	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain in the Cedar Point area in extreme east central San Juan County. 0.57 inches of rain was measured from the event, with most of the rainfall occurring in a 30 minute period.
September 2005	Flash Flood	Blanding	-	no account filed
June 2003	Wildfire	Blanding	-	no account filed
September 2003	Heavy Rain	Blanding	-	no account filed
July 2003	Wildfire	Blanding	-	no account filed
July 2003	Wildfire	Blanding	-	no account filed
July 2002	Wildfire	Blanding	-	no account filed
July 2000	Wildfire	Blanding	-	no account filed
July 1998	Flash Flood	Blanding	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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
	Goulding's Trading Post	6.7 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003939 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 23 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.
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.