Providence LDS Chapel and Meetinghouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Providence LDS Chapel and Meetinghouse is a historic building in Providence, Utah. It was built in 1869-1873, before Utah became a state, as a chapel and meetinghouse for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”
Wikipedia article Providence LDS Chapel and Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Cache County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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.
Address. 20 S. Main St., Providence, 84321
When was it listed? February 1982
Category. building
Census division. Logan
National Register reference number. 82004112 - 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Providence LDS Chapel and Meetinghouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,422 acres in total. 25 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	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Fireworks	3
Smoking	1
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
7 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	THIRD DAM
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MILVILLE Y
19 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	RICK
10 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SECOND DAM
10 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SECOND DAM FIRE
9 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LITTLE BALDY
8 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LOWER WATERFALL
8 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LOGAN DRY

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Providence LDS Chapel and Meetinghouse: 13 producers, 10 past producers, 8 occurrences. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Emmett Mining and Milling	Lead	Occurrence	Galena, Smithsonite, Sphalerite
Providence Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Providence Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
Unknown	Limestone, General	Producer
La Var A. Mohr	Calcium	Occurrence	Placer
Norman Peterson	Calcium	Occurrence	Placer
Theron M. Campbell	Calcium	Occurrence	Placer
Cache Concrete Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cache Concrete Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Chugg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	1960

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this property

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Providence, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2011	Flood	Providence	$200,000	The Logan River flooded again beginning in mid-June. The Logan River Golf Course and walking trail was partially closed when a breach in the river bank sent a large stream of water down the middle of the golf course. Damage occurred to a few low lying bridges, including the Millville Bridge and a railroad bridge in Logan.
June 2011	Flood	Providence	$100,000	Spring Creek near the town of Providence, Utah experienced flooding at the end of June. Most of the damage occurred when gravel clogged culverts along the creek, making the creek divert around the culverts, and causing damage to driveways and roads. At one point, flooding threatened houses, and a couple families were voluntarily evacuated. Throughout the event, a few houses along the creek experienced basement flooding. Note that this event continued into July.
July 2011	Flood	Providence	$30,000	Spring Creek near the town of Providence, Utah continued to experienced flooding through the beginning of July. Another clogged culvert along the creek washed out a road in early July, but otherwise additional damage was minimal as waters began to recede and impacts were further mitigated. Note that this event began in June.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Providence	-	The Logan Peak weather station recorded an initial peak wind gust of 63 mph at 9:00 pm MST as a result of a thunderstorm and associated outflow winds moving over the site. A second thunderstorm an hour later resulted in a wind gust of 58 mph at 10:00 pm MST.
June 2009	Hail	Providence	-	Hailstones with a 0.75 inch diameter were observed in Providence.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Providence	-	A trained spotter estimated a 52 knot wind gust, and small hail was also reported.

Every storm recorded in Cache 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
Providence Historic District	0.2 miles	2007
Ferdinand Zollinger Jr. House	0.3 miles	1992
Erick Lehi and Ingrid Larsen Olson House	1.0 miles	1997
River Heights Sinclair Station	1.0 miles	2017
Logan LDS Sixth Ward Church	1.5 miles	1979
William McNeil Smith House	1.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004112 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cache County	All 80 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.