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Photograph of Academy Building
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Main Building of Dixie College

Built in 1911 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Academy Building is a historic school building on Town Square in St. Opened in September 1911, it was constructed to house the St.”

Wikipedia article Academy Building (St. George, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1911, Romanesque Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 86 S. Main St., St. George, 84770
  • When was it listed? June 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. George
  • When was it built? 1911
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80003988 - 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

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Main Building of Dixie College between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,277 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined96
Debris and open burning27
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Fireworks23
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural9
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
8 September 1999Natural4.0 acresCedar City Field OfficePARKWAY
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest AreaMILL WASH
30 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDIXIE DOWNS
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBLOOMINGTON HILLS
28 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands1050PI STANDBY
24 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMIDDLETON
23 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands400 W.
23 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHEET METAL SHOP

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Main Building of Dixie College: 14 past producers, 12 prospects, 7 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Volcanic Materials. 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
Bloomington ClaimCopper, UraniumOccurrence
P, L, P & M ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
Gypsum ProspectGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum
Gypsum ProspectGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Picture Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Riprap #27056Volcanic MaterialsOccurrenceBasalt
Riprap Deposit #27047Volcanic MaterialsProspectBasalt
Ut Dept Hwys Riprap Dep No.27047PumiceProspect
Ut Dept Hwys Riprap No.27056PumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington 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
St. George Tabernacleunder 500 feet1971
Woodward Schoolunder 500 feet1980
Orson Pratt House0.1 miles1983
St. George Elementary School0.1 miles1985
Old Washington County Courthouse0.3 miles1970
Brigham Young Winter Home and Office0.3 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003988 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 93 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.