Joseph Wall Gristmill

Built in 1874. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Sevier County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1874.

Sources: 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. Wall, Joseph, Gristmill - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 355 S. 250 East, Glenwood, 84730
When was it listed? June 1980
Category. building
Census division. Richfield
When was it built? 1874
National Register reference number. 80003961 - 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Joseph Wall Gristmill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,399 acres in total. 75 started naturally. 4 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	75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Firearms and explosives use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	MILLS
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	KING MEADOW
3 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	COTTON WOOD TREE
28 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	BEAR RIDGE
28 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	398 acres	Richfield Field Office	HEPPLERS
26 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	ROAD JUMP
22 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	WILLOW PATCH

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Joseph Wall Gristmill: 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium. 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
Wooley #9 Claim	Uranium	Occurrence
Bestwall Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Sigurd Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Us Gypsum Co Quarry	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Us Gypsum Plant	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Producer
Black Knoll Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Black Knoll Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rainbow Hills Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Rainbow Hills Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit # 21021	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this property

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenwood	-	The Glenwood 7 E station recorded a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
August 2018	Flash Flood	Glenwood	-	Heavy rain caused a debris flow on the Willow Patch Fire burn scar. Due to this debris flow, state Route 24 was temporarily impassible between mileposts 17 and 18.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Glenwood	-	The Lost Creek RAWS recorded a wind gust of 65 mph.

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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
Martin Johnson House	0.3 miles	1982
Glenwood Cooperative Store	0.4 miles	1980
Richfield Carnegie Library	5.3 miles	1984
Young Block	5.4 miles	1980
US Post Office-Richfield Main	5.4 miles	1989
Jens Larson Jenson Lime Kiln	6.1 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003961 in Record Group 79.
Sevier County	All 20 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.