John T. Lewellyn House

Built in 1875. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Lewellyn House in Wales, Utah was built in 1875. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article John T. Lewellyn House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1875.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lewellyn, John T., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main St., Wales, 84667
When was it listed? October 1980
Category. building
Census division. Mount Pleasant-Moroni
When was it built? 1875
National Register reference number. 80003958 - 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

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of John T. Lewellyn House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 6 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
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
7 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WALES RESERVOIR
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SALVAGE YARD
17 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LAMB
15 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BIG MOUNTAIN
12 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PETES CANYON
29 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BIG MOUNTAIN
24 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SOUTH LEDGE
22 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Manti-Lasal National Forest	CONGLOMORATE ROCK

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of John T. Lewellyn House: 19 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone, Dimension. 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
Moroni North Sandstone Prospects	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Quartz
Wales Tufa Deposit	Calcium	Occurrence
Spring Ditch Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit #20023	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20026	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20028	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sandstone
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20029	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sandstone
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20030	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sandstone
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20032	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Utah Dept. Highways, Pit #20027	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Wales Co-operative Mercantile Institution	0.1 miles	2000
Moroni Opera House	3.6 miles	1996
Mortensen-Nelson House	4.0 miles	2003
Jabez Faux House And Barn	4.0 miles	1976
Moroni High School Mechanical Arts Building	4.2 miles	1985
Charles Crawforth Farmstead	6.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003958 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete County	All 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.