Provo West Co-op

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Provo West Co-op is a mercantile institution and also the name of its historic building in Provo, Utah. The Early Commercial-style building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as "Provo West Co-op".”
Wikipedia article Provo West Co-op, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah County · listed in 1984 · 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. 450 W. Center St., Provo, 84601
When was it listed? July 1984
Category. building
Census division. Provo-Orem
National Register reference number. 84002429 - 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Provo West Co-op between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,360 acres in total. 26 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/undetermined	39
Natural	26
Arson/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Fireworks	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1
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 1996	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	Y-MOUNTAIN #2
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BMT
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HARVEY'S
5 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	EAST LAWN
28 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FARMER FIRE
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named
24 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ILLEGAL BURN
24 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not 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 Provo West Co-op: 20 past producers, 13 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Ironton Smelter Dump	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant	Surface
Buckley Mine	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1902, 1917
Ironton Adit	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Vein
Lower Slate Canyon Quarry	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Monarch	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Replacement
Monarch Mine	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Stubbs Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Ironton North Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
Ironton South Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
Provo Brick & Tile Co.	Clay	Producer

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	15 hurt, $50,000,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	$50,000	A 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 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	$20,000	no account filed
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	$5,000	Severe 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 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	$4,000	Several 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 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	$2,000	A dry microburst knocked down several power lines along Freedom Boulevard in Provo.
April 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	$2,000	The 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 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	$1,000	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	$600	no account filed
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	at BYU
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	Provo BYU
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	Microburst wind gusts of 72 mph (63 kts) at Provo BYU knocked down small trees and broke some large branches.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	This gust was measured by an anemometer approximately 147 feet above ground level.
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	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 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	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 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	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 1998	Hail	Provo	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Provo	-	no account filed
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	Provo	-	no account filed
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	Provo	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Provo	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	no account filed
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Provo	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
George Taylor Jr. House	under 500 feet	1983
Hines Mansion	under 500 feet	1978
Provo Third Ward Chapel and Amusement Hall	0.1 miles	1979
Beebe, Angus, George and Martha Ansil, House	0.1 miles	1980
Joseph H. Frisby House	0.2 miles	1984
William D. Roberts House	0.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002429 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Utah County	All 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.