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Startup Candy Factory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Startup Candy Factory is a historic building in Provo, Utah. The building retains its name from its original business, the Startup Candy Company, named after the family that ran the business and built the factory and warehouse.”

Wikipedia article Startup Candy Factory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah 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.
  • Address. 534 S. 100 West, Provo, 84601
  • When was it listed? October 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Provo-Orem
  • Architectural style. Victorian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 83003973 - 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Startup Candy Factory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,300 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined43
Natural27
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony10
Fireworks7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 1996Arson/incendiarism40 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestY-MOUNTAIN #2
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBMT
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHARVEY'S
5 September 1996Arson/incendiarism7.5 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestEAST LAWN
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFARMER FIRE
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsILLEGAL BURN
24 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forestnot named

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Startup Candy Factory: 21 past producers, 13 producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Clay, 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
(Facility) Ironton Smelter DumpStone, Crushed/BrokenPlantSurface
Buckley MineSilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer1902, 1917
Ironton AditManganese, IronOccurrenceVein
Lower Slate Canyon QuarrySlate, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
MonarchSilver, Lead, ZincPast ProducerReplacement
Monarch MineZinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Stubbs PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Provo Brick & Tile Co.ClayProducer
Stubbs Clay PitClayPast ProducerSurface
Ironton North QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this property

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Provo, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 15 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindProvo15 hurt, $50,000,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindProvo$50,000A 71 mph (62 kts) wind gust was reported from a severe thunderstorm. Several trees and power poles were knocked down or damaged. There was also damage to cars and structures.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindProvo$20,000no account filed
March 2003Thunderstorm WindProvo$5,000Severe thunderstorms along a cold front blew through Utah County, tearing down tree limbs, blowing shingles off roofs and flipping over a trampoline. Springville reported a gust to 69 mph (60 kts) and Provo BYU recorded a gust to 62 mph (54 kts).
June 2008Thunderstorm WindProvo$4,000Several trees were knocked down around the Orem and Provo area as the result of an overnight microburst. The highest recorded wind gust was 51 mph near Vineyard.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindProvo$2,000A dry microburst knocked down several power lines along Freedom Boulevard in Provo.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindProvo$2,000The Eyring Science Center sensor in Provo recorded a 60 mph wind gust. In addition, multiple large trees were knocked down in the Orem area from this early morning thunderstorm.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindProvo$1,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindProvo$600no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindProvo-at BYU
June 2005Thunderstorm WindProvo-Provo BYU
June 2001Thunderstorm WindProvo-Microburst wind gusts of 72 mph (63 kts) at Provo BYU knocked down small trees and broke some large branches.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindProvo-This gust was measured by an anemometer approximately 147 feet above ground level.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindProvo-Microburst winds downed tree limbs and power lines in the Provo area. Tooele County 5 N Erda,27,1707MST,,,0,0,0,0,Thunderstorm Wind
May 1994Thunderstorm WindProvo-An upper level disturbance associated cold front brought thunderstorms and microburst winds to the Wasatch front. In Tooele county, gusts were estimated between 70 and 80 mph. In West Jordan, a Cessna 140 broke its tie downs, was blown 50 feet and flipped over. Also in West Jordan, a swamp cooler was blown off a house. In Layton, a U Haul van was overturned. The top 20 feet of several trees were snapped of in Syracuse. In Kearns, gusts estimated between 80 and 90 mph snapped a 50 foot tall pine tree of at the base.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindProvo-A squall line formed in advance of an approaching cold front. Most of the moisture ahead of the cold front was in the middle and high levels. Therefore, the thunderstorms that developed, produced microburst winds. In the Tremonton area, these winds blew a few small fences and trees down, and a few shingles off houses. However, one larger 100-year-old pine tree was blown over onto a house, but it caused no major damage. The large hail that fell was brief and soft, and caused no damage.
September 1998HailProvo-no account filed
June 1998HailProvo-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudProvo-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudProvo-no account filed
May 1996HailProvo-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindProvo-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindProvo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Utah 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
William H. Ray House0.2 miles1982
William D. Alexander House0.3 miles1983
Simon P. Sr. Eggertsen House0.4 miles1977
Provo Tabernacle0.5 miles1975
Provo Downtown Historic District0.5 miles1980
Reed O. Smoot House0.5 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83003973 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Utah CountyAll 183 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.