Pleasant Grove Tithing Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Pleasant Grove Tithing Office at 7 South 300 East in Pleasant Grove, Utah was built c.1908. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Pleasant Grove Tithing Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah County · listed in 1985 · 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. 7 S. 300 East, Pleasant Grove, 84062
When was it listed? January 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Tithing Offices and Granaries of the Mormon Church TR
Census division. American Fork-Pleasant Grove
National Register reference number. 85000288 - 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 Pleasant Grove Tithing Office between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,617 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 12 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	56
Recreation and ceremony	21
Natural	15
Debris and open burning	13
Arson/incendiarism	12
Fireworks	8
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
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 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CASCADE FIRE
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	DRY CANYON 2
6 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MADDIE
6 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SHIP FIRE
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MAHOGANY
30 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DRY CYN. LINDON
27 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	COWBOY
27 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ILLEGAL BURN

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Grove Tithing Office: 15 past producers, 15 producers, 5 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Brick Clay. 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
Mahogany Mtn. Prospect	Calcium	Occurrence	Replacement
Wadley Pit	Brick Clay	Producer	Surface
Mcfarland Deposit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Wadley Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Ellis Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Surface
Ellis Mcfarland and Smith Pits	Clay	Producer
Ellis, Mcfarland & Smith Pits	Clay	Occurrence
Mcfarland Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Surface
Smith Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Wadley Deposit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Grove, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 1 death and 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 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Grove	1 killed	A strong microburst wind resulted in one death in Utah County. The fatality occurred at a baseball park in Pleasant Grove, when a gust of wind blew a 250-pound portable pitching mound over, striking the 13-year-old boy in the head.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Grove	1 hurt	Tree fell on woman east of Pleasant Grove in microburst
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Grove	$5,000	Social media posts indicated multiple downed trees in Pleasant Grove.
June 1997	Hail	Pleasant Grove	$2,000	A severe thunderstorm moved through Utah County. A spotter in Pleasant Grove measured 3/4" hail from this storm.
August 2010	Hail	Pleasant Grove	-	Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported in Pleasant Grove.
June 2005	Hail	Pleasant Grove	-	Reported in Pleasant Grove
September 2002	Hail	Pleasant Grove	-	A severe thunderstorm produced nickle-size hail and very heavy downpours in the Pleasant Grove area. Rainfall amounts of .78 inches in 15 minutes produced street flooding.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Grove	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Grove	-	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
Pleasant Grove School	0.2 miles	1980
Samuel Green House	0.2 miles	1987
Beers House-Hotel	0.2 miles	1994
Ashton-Driggs House	0.2 miles	1972
Pleasant Grove Town Hall	0.2 miles	1985
Pleasant Grove Historic District	0.2 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000288 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.