BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1982 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Robidoux Inscription
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Westwater Creek in Book Cliffs, Cisco, 84540
- When was it listed? July 1982
- Category. site
- Census division. Thompson Springs
- National Register reference number. 82004124 - 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
31 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Robidoux Inscription between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 31 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 31 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1995 | Natural | 15 acres | Moab Field Office | DRYCANYON |
| 6 August 1995 | Natural | 10 acres | Moab Field Office | HAY CANYON |
| 18 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | BRYSON |
| 15 August 2013 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Moab Field Office | SULPHUR CANYON |
| 14 August 1996 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Moab Field Office | TWO |
| 14 August 1996 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Moab Field Office | ONE |
| 14 August 1996 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Moab Field Office | THREE |
| 12 August 2019 | Natural | 5.7 acres | Moab Field Office | DRY CANYON |
Storms near this property
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cisco, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 2 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Lightning | Cisco | 1 killed | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Cisco | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Heavy Rain | Cisco | - | Law Enforcement reported standing water on Interstate 70 near Cisco, UT due to heavy rain from passing thunderstorms. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cisco | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Wildfire | Cisco | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Wildfire | Cisco | - | no account filed |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82004124 in Record Group 79. |
| Grand 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.
- 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.