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Photograph of William and Martha Myrick House
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William and Martha Myrick House

Built in 1902 (Eastlake Movement). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1902, Eastlake Movement.

Sources: 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. Myrick, William and Martha, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N of Kamas, Kamas, 84036
  • When was it listed? March 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Kamas
  • When was it built? 1902
  • Architectural style. Eastlake Movement
  • National Register reference number. 82004164 - 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of William and Martha Myrick House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. 26 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
Debris and open burning71
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use15
Fireworks6
Other causes5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROB YOUNG POLE
3 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSLATE
28 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPEOA
28 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsAUERBACH
27 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSS HILL
21 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBOULDERVILLE WIRE
2 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsVICTORY RANCH
19 September 2009Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsNORTH BENCH

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of William and Martha Myrick House: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beaver Creek Lead Zinc MineLead, ZincOccurrenceGalena, Pyrite
High Bluff Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerAndesite
High Bluff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSurface
Chuck No. 1 Thru 15Gold, SilverProducer
Gold Bullion No. 1 Thru 5Gold, SilverProducer
Lucky Strike Nos. 1 Thru 6.Gold, SilverProducer
Marion Cemetery Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Marion Cemetery Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
South Francis Gravel Pit.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys No 22006Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kamas, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997Thunderstorm WindKamas1 killedno account filed
August 2016HailKamas-Quarter-sized hail was reported in Kamas.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKamas-Powerlines and poles blown down by wind

Every storm recorded in Summit 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
O'Mahony Dining Car No. 11073.4 miles2009
Byron T. Mitchell House4.1 miles1984
Oscar F. Lyons House4.8 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82004164 in Record Group 79.
Summit CountyAll 111 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.