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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1862.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Ensign-Smith House
Built in 1862. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 96 N. Main St., Paragonah, 84760
- When was it listed? May 1983
- Category. building
- Census division. Parowan
- When was it built? 1862
- National Register reference number. 83004400 - 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
69 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Ensign-Smith House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | BROAD CYN |
| 30 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CANYON ROAD |
| 22 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Southwest Area | 400 WEST |
| 21 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | P HILL |
| 2 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | VALENTINE |
| 15 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwest Area | 291 WEST |
| 3 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | ORDER CANYON |
| 28 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PAROWAN CONTROL |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Ensign-Smith House: 19 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Joe #1 & #2 | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Cemetary Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cemetery Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Basalt, Conglomerate, Quartzite, Sand, Sandstone | |
| Dry Canyon Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Basalt, Sandstone | |
| Dry Canyon Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| East Parowan Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| East Parowan Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hurricane Cliffs Barrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Hurricane Cliffs Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Hurricane Cliffs Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paragonah, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1997 | Flash Flood | Paragonah | $40,000 | no account filed |
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
4 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parowan Meetinghouse | 4.3 miles | 1976 | |
 | William and Julia Lyman House | 4.3 miles | 2000 |
 | Jesse N. Smith House | 4.3 miles | 1975 |
 | Meeks-Green Farmstead | 4.5 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83004400 in Record Group 79. |
| Iron County | All 15 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.