Fairview Tithing Office/Bishop's Storehouse

Built in 1908 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1908, Victorian architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 60 W. 100 South, Fairview, 84629
When was it listed? January 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Tithing Offices and Granaries of the Mormon Church TR
Census division. Mount Pleasant-Moroni
When was it built? 1908
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 85000281 - 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Fairview Tithing Office/Bishop's Storehouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 12 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	12
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	JUNK YARD
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SKYLINE MTN
26 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Central Area	MOUNTAINVILLE
26 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named
17 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DUNG HILL FIRE
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Richfield Field Office	FAIRVIEW CANYON
8 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.2 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	2020
5 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	LAKE FORK

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Fairview Tithing Office/Bishop's Storehouse: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cemetery Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Round Hills Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No.20003	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20003	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20005	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20005	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20007	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20008	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20009	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20010	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2001: 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2001	Lightning	Fairview	1 hurt	A 26-year old man was struck by lightning while golfing at a course near Fairview. A medical helicopter transported him to a hospital in Salt Lake City. The lightning bolt reportedly went in through his head and out through his hip. He was treated and later released.
August 2001	Tornado (F0)	Fairview	-	A spotter reported a tornado just west of Highway 89 between Fairview and Birdseye. The tornado lasted about 10 minutes and remained over open country.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Fairview Amusement Hall	under 500 feet	2002
Niels P. Hjort House	under 500 feet	1980
Fairview City Hall	under 500 feet	1986
James Anderson House	0.3 miles	1980
James B. Staker House	5.4 miles	1980
Mount Pleasant High School Mechanical Arts Building	5.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000281 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete County	All 83 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.