Parker and Weeter Block

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Parker and Weeter Block is a historic two-story building in Price, Utah. Its design has elements of Prairie School style including paired brackets and dentils at its cornice, and horizontal lines.”
Wikipedia article Parker and Weeter Block, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Carbon 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. 85 W. Main St., Price, 84501
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Census division. Price
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
National Register reference number. 82004115 - 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Parker and Weeter Block between 1992 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Debris and open burning	22
Recreation and ceremony	22
Natural	21
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	MARSING
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CARBONVILLE
7 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WOODHILL
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	CONSUMERS
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Southeast Area	MEADS WASH
5 September 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ROADSIDE
24 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Moab Field Office	GORDON CREEK
24 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Moab Field Office	COAL

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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 Parker and Weeter Block: 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Industrial Center Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Chert, Limestone, Sandstone
Lowdermilk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Limestone, Sandstone
Lowdermilk Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Limestone, Sandstone
Unknown Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #04011	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04011	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04012	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04015	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Limestone, Sandstone
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04020	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sandstone

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Price, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Price	$300,000	Severe thunderstorm winds hit the area near Price, with most damage reported in Miller Creek. The strongest recorded wind was 58 mph (50 kts) at the Price Airport. However, 4 miles to the south in Miller Creek, the winds lifted a mobile home off its foundation and destroyed the structure. A roof was torn off another home and onto another. causing heavy damage. A horse was killed by flying debris. A total of 12 houses were damaged, along with a barn and a corral.
August 2017	Hail	Price	-	Nickel-sized hail was reported near Price.
September 2016	Flash Flood	Price	-	Flash flooding was reported in Price and other surrounding areas, including near the Book Cliffs.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Price	-	Flash flooding was reported on Gordon Creek, west of Price, after a radar-estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain fell over the area.
October 2010	Hail	Price	-	Nickel size (0.88 inch diameter) hail was reported near Price.
June 2006	Hail	Price	-	Estimated size...reported by NSSL. 1" hail also reported in Sunnyside and Wellington about the same time.
September 2006	Hail	Price	-	Large thunderstorms associated with a cold front produced 1.25" to 1.5" hail reported in numerous location in and just east of Price.
August 2005	Hail	Price	-	Hail fell for 20 min in downtown Price
July 2001	Tornado (F0)	Price	-	An F0 tornado was spotted over open country about 10 miles southwest of Price.
June 1997	Flood	Price	-	A strong thunderstorm caused heavy rain to fall in the town of Price. Street flooding occurred due to this heavy downpour. A spotter in Price measured 1.61" of rain on this date.
September 2006	Hail	Price	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
39-47 W Main	under 500 feet	2008
US Post Office-Price Main	0.1 miles	1989
Star Theatre	0.2 miles	1982
Price Tavern/Braffet Block	0.2 miles	1978
Albert and Mariah Bryner House	0.2 miles	2008
Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church	0.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004115 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon County	All 26 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.