Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
“The Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall, located at 39 E. Vine St. in Tooele, Utah, was built in 1867.”
Wikipedia article Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,844 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 5 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 | 48 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | SILCOX |
| 5 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest Area | CANAL |
| 27 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | S MTN 3 |
| 23 September 2014 | Firearms and explosives use | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | TOOELE |
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 206 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BUGGY |
| 15 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Northwest Area | PIONEER ASSIST |
| 12 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BAUER TRANSFORMER |
| 9 August 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | UTAH AVE |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall: 30 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) International Smeltershut Down | Gold, Silver, Copper | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Tooele Smelter Dump | Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver | Plant | ||
| Ben Harrison Mine | Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Ben Harrison Mine | Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Boston Consolidated | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Middle Canyon Mines | Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| National Tunnel and Mines | Copper, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Rush Valley District | Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Salvation-Hercules Mine | Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Malachite, Plumbojarosite | |
| Salvation-Hercules Mine | Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tooele, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tooele | 2 hurt, $2,000 | Two people were seriously injured when strong thunderstorm winds toppled a scissor lift. The individuals were using the lift to film a football game, and fell about 25 feet to the ground. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tooele | $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tooele | - | I-80 closed due to trucks blown over |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Tooele | - | Intense slow-moving thunderstorms produced 3"+ rains across the Tooele Valley |
| August 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Tooele | - | A thunderstorm spawned a funnel cloud that was witnessed by several people near the Overlake Subdivision on the north end of Tooele. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tooele | - | Thunderstorms dropped 0.75 inches in 20 minutes in the mountains west of Huntington. The runoff produced a flash flood and mud flows across Highway 31. Later in the day a 46-year-old male was struck by lightning while working in a gravel pit. He was knocked unconscious by the bolt. He was taken to a hospital and later released. In Tooele, a severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust measured at 72 mph, and dropped .92 inch of rain in 15 minutes. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Tooele | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tooele | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Tooele | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Tooele | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Tooele | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Tooele | - | no account filed |
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.
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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tooele Carnegie Library | under 500 feet | 1984 |
| Tooele City Downtown Historic District | under 500 feet | 2023 | |
 | Peter Clegg House | under 500 feet | 2019 |
 | Kirk Hotel, The | 0.1 miles | 2020 |
 | Tooele Valley Railroad Complex | 0.5 miles | 1984 |
 | Stockton Jail | 6.4 miles | 1985 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83003194 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Tooele County | All 29 listed properties in this county. |
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