Gardner Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Gardner Mill, at 1100 West 7800 South in West Jordan, Utah, United States was built in 1877 and is the focal point of today's Gardner Village.”
Wikipedia article Gardner Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1050 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, 84088
When was it listed? September 1982
Category. building
Census division. Salt Lake City
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 82004153 - 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

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Gardner Mill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined	4
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TONYA
31 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BINGHAM ASSIST
9 July 2019	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
7 June 1997	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MURDOCK
5 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV
21 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	963 W MOGUL PEAK RD
19 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	4430 S ATHERTON DR

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Gardner Mill: 29 past producers, 26 producers, 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 26 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
All Minerals Mill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Alta Champion	Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth	Producer	Vein
Dry Fork Mine	Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Midvale Minerals Co	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.	Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic	Producer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.	Lead, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
New England	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
New York & Great Western Mining, Smelting, and Development Company	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Onyx Ranch	Gemstone	Producer	Onyx
Spring and Summit	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this property

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Jordan, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 1998	Heavy Rain	West Jordan	$1,500,000	no account filed
April 2026	Hail	West Jordan	-	A trained spotter reported 0.75 hail.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	West Jordan	-	KU42, Salt Lake Airport #2
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	West Jordan	-	no account filed
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	West Jordan	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	West Jordan	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	West Jordan	-	no account filed
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	West Jordan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
West Jordan Ward Meetinghouse	0.1 miles	1995
Midvale City Hall	0.7 miles	1994
Salt Lake County Library	0.8 miles	1982
Ernest and Sadie Cushing House	1.1 miles	1996
Utah-Idaho Sugar Factory	1.3 miles
Thomas and Beda Anderberg House	1.9 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004153 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Salt Lake County	All 399 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.