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Photograph of Charles Crawforth Farmstead
Photograph by Roy Watson Jr, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Charles Crawforth Farmstead

Built in 1884. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Charles Crawforth Farmstead is a historic house on a farm in Spring City, Utah. It was built with limestone in 1884 by Charles Crawforth, an immigrant from England who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1854 and settled in Provo, Utah in 1855.”

Wikipedia article Charles Crawforth Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1884.

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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Crawforth, Charles, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SW of Spring City on Pigeon Hollow Rd., Spring City, 84662
  • When was it listed? February 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Mount Pleasant-Moroni
  • When was it built? 1884
  • National Register reference number. 80003956 - 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

70 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Charles Crawforth Farmstead between 1995 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsE FIRE
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJUNCTION SPOT
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPIG FIRE
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSP FIRE
4 September 2001Natural75 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSCRUB
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSALVAGE YARD
2 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSUSPICION FIRE
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBLUE TUB

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Charles Crawforth Farmstead: 24 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Little Pigeon Hollow Limestone Quarry #1Stone, DimensionPast ProducerLimestone
Little Pigeon Hollow Ls.Quarry No.1StonePast Producer
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry #1Stone, DimensionPast ProducerLimestone
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry #2Stone, DimensionPast ProducerLimestone
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry No.1StonePast Producer
Pigeon Creek Limestone Quarry No.2StonePast Producer
Pigeon Hollow Limestone ProspectStone, DimensionOccurrenceLimestone
Pigeon Hollow Limestone ProspectStonePast Producer
White Hill Limestone Quarry #1Stone, DimensionPast ProducerLimestone
White Hill Limestone Quarry No.1StonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring City, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 1998: 3 flash flood. 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
July 1998Flash FloodSpring City$900,000no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodSpring City$200,000no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodSpring City$100,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Spring City School1.9 miles1978
Mortensen-Nelson House5.9 miles2003
Moroni Opera House6.4 miles1996
Moroni High School Mechanical Arts Building6.5 miles1985
John H. Seely House6.8 miles1982
Frederick C. Jensen House6.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003956 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete CountyAll 83 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.