Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Grantsville First Ward Meetinghouse, in Grantsville, Utah, United States, is a meeting house of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Church) which was built in 1865-1866. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982; the listing did not include a 1952 addition to the building.”
Wikipedia article Grantsville First Ward Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82004165- 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
96 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Grantsville First Ward Meetinghouse
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 5,478 acres in total. 11 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
37
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Natural
11
Debris and open burning
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Recreation and ceremony
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Smoking
1
Firearms and explosives use
1
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Grantsville First Ward Meetinghouse: 11 past producers, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grantsville, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Flash flooding hit the Tooele Valley, where near Grantsville 2 dirt roads became impassable as water 3 feet deep rushed over them, cutting off access to several homes. Two homes reported flooded basements there, with another basement flooded in Tooele.
The Grantsville South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 65 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Grantsville South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 69 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Grantsville South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Grantsville South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 62 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
During the evening, two swimmers at Grantsville Reservoir were pushed away from the shore as a result of high winds (from outflow associated with convection moving into the area). At approximately 8:30 pm MST a 9-1-1 call was placed stating that a swimmer had been pushed away from the shore. While one of the swimmers managed to return to shore, the other did not surface. Recovery efforts were initially unsuccessful, but the body of the swimmer that did not return to shore was later discovered two days later.
The Grantsville South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 66 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Grantsville South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 60 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Grantsville South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Grantsville South weather station recorded a wind gust of 69 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
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.
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.
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