Jens Nielsen House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Jens Nielsen House in Ephraim, Utah, is a one-story limestone and adobe pair-house built around 1870. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and deemed "significant as an example of Scandinavian vernacular architecture in Utah."”
Wikipedia article Jens Nielsen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1983 · 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. Nielsen, Jens, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 192 W. 200 South, Ephraim, 84627
When was it listed? February 1983
Category. building
Also known as. Scandinavian-American Pair-houses TR
Census division. Ephraim-Manti
National Register reference number. 83003191 - 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Jens Nielsen House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 486 acres in total. 13 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	17
Natural	13
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	E FIRE
27 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WILLOW CREEK
20 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BULL
14 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Manti-Lasal National Forest	NEW CANYON
14 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WILLOW CREEK ROAD
12 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Manti-Lasal National Forest	WILLOW CREEK
11 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	JORGENSEN STUBBLE
9 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	BALD

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Jens Nielsen House: 27 past producers, 6 occurrences, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Uranium. 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
Alunite Mineral	Aluminum	Occurrence
Betty A,	Vanadium, Uranium	Producer
Little Vernon	Uranium	Occurrence	Carnotite
Moab Mine	Uranium	Producer
North Mesa	Uranium	Producer
White Mesa Mine	Uranium	Past Producer
Yellow Circle Mining Co.	Uranium	Producer
Black Hill Limestone Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Limestone
Black Hill Limestone Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Little Pigeon Hollow Limestone Quarry #1	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Limestone

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ephraim, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ephraim	-	A peak wind gust of 72 mph was recorded by the Joe's Valley RAWS.
September 2002	Tornado (F0)	Ephraim	-	A small tornado (F0) was observed just west of Ephraim in Sanpete County. The tornado moved slowly to the northeast over open country before dissipating. This tornado remained on the ground for only a few seconds, but the funnel cloud was visible for about 10 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Claus P. Andersen House	0.1 miles	1983
Oluf Larsen House	0.2 miles	1983
Greaves-Deakin House	0.2 miles	1980
Rasmus Jensen House	0.2 miles	1983
Ephraim Tithing Office-Bishop's Storehouse	0.3 miles	2020
Canute Peterson House	0.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83003191 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete County	All 83 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.