Byron T. Mitchell House

Built in 1897. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1897.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Mitchell, Byron T., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 189 and UT 35, Francis, 84036
When was it listed? May 1984
Category. building
Census division. Kamas
When was it built? 1897
National Register reference number. 84002336 - 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Byron T. Mitchell House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 23 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
Debris and open burning	47
Recreation and ceremony	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Natural	23
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	2
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
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MRS FIELDS BENCH CREEK
5 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WOODLAND HILLS
28 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	AUERBACH
27 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SS HILL
23 September 2011	Other causes	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WOODLAND DUCE
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	VICTORY RANCH
18 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	KAMAS CONE
16 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WOODLAND

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Byron T. Mitchell House: 10 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Exploration Investment Quarry	Gemstone	Past Producer	Surface
High Bluff Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Andesite
Quarry Near Woodland Cemetery	Stone	Past Producer
Webb Hollow Mine	Gold	Occurrence
High Bluff Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Surface
Woodland Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Quartzite, Sandstone
Chuck No. 1 Thru 15	Gold, Silver	Producer
Gold Bullion No. 1 Thru 5	Gold, Silver	Producer
Lucky Strike Nos. 1 Thru 6.	Gold, Silver	Producer
South Francis Gravel Pit.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Francis, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Francis	$75,000	Strong straight-line thunderstorm winds produced significant damage in Samak, Utah, primarily along Samak Park Loop. The winds snapped 10 aspen trees, uprooted a cottonwood tree, lifted and displaced a garage approximately 20 feet, and produced considerable roof damage to multiple other structures.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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

3 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
William and Martha Myrick House	4.1 miles	1982
Verner O. Hewlett Ranch House	7.2 miles	1985
O'Mahony Dining Car No. 1107	7.3 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002336 in Record Group 79.
Summit County	All 111 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.