Jens Nielson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Jens Nielson House is a historic house in Bluff, Utah. It was built in 1890 for Jens Nielson, an immigrant from Denmark who converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and arrived in the United States with his wife, née Elsie Rasmussen, in 1856.”
Wikipedia article Jens Nielson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan 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.
Listed as. Nielson, Jens, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off UT 47, Bluff, 84512
When was it listed? February 1982
Category. building
Census division. Blanding
National Register reference number. 82004155 - 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Jens Nielson House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 2 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	EVAPORATION
8 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Moab Field Office	PUMP
6 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BLUFF
12 July 2018	Natural	1.2 acres	Southeast Area	BLUFF
10 July 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Moab Field Office	BRIDGE
8 June 1998	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WATERMELON
7 June 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Moab Field Office	HIGHWAY 191 MM 21
24 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BLUFF DUMP

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Jens Nielson House: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium. 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
Hole In Rock Mine	Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	Carnotite
Hole In the Rock	Uranium	Occurrence
Hole In the Rock Mine	Uranium	Past Producer	Surface, Underground
Gravel Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Gravel Deposit #19038	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Quartzite
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19038	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this property

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bluff, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 flood. 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
September 2003	Flash Flood	Bluff	$1,000,000	no account filed
August 2001	Flash Flood	Bluff	$30,000	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Bluff	$12,000	no account filed
August 2013	Flash Flood	Bluff	$10,000	Rainfall through the day, with 1.85 inches recorded between 2 pm and 3 pm, produced flash flooding from the town of Bluff to Sand Island and along Highway 191. Sand bagging was needed in town to protect structures. Minor damage was reported.
June 2020	Hail	Bluff	-	A severe thunderstorm produced large hail measured to be the size of ping-pong balls in Bluff.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Bluff	-	Thunderstorms produced 0.88 of an inch of rain within a couple of hours. Minor flooding was reported.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Bluff	-	Near Bluff 0.50 of an inch of rain fell within a 10 minute period.
September 2012	Debris Flow	Bluff	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in a flow of mud and water across Highway 191 approximately 8 miles north of Bluff.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Bluff	-	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down some old trees and broke off large branches from other trees throughout the town of Bluff.
July 2008	Heavy Rain	Bluff	-	Minor flooding occurred around Bluff and covered a portion of Highway 163 about 3 miles east of Bluff. A spotter reported 0.53 inches of rainfall in 45 minutes.
October 1998	Heavy Rain	Bluff	-	A thunderstorm produced brief heavy rain in Bluff, with 0.50 inches falling in 15 minutes. This produced some minor street flooding.
September 2005	Funnel Cloud	Bluff	-	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Bluff	-	no account filed
September 2002	Flood	Bluff	-	no account filed
September 2002	Flood	Bluff	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Bluff	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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
Joseph Frederick Adams House	0.5 miles	1985
John Albert Scorup House	0.5 miles	1983
Bluff Historic District	0.6 miles	1995
Lemuel H. Redd Jr. House	0.8 miles	1983
James Bean Decker House	1.0 miles	1983
St. Christopher's Episcopal Mission	1.4 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004155 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 23 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.