Built in 1891 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“The Leeds Tithing Office is a historic building in Leeds, Utah. It was built in 1891-1892 as a tithing building for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and designed in the Greek Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Leeds Tithing Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1891, Greek Revival architecture.
Also known as. Tithing Offices and Granaries of the Mormon Church TR
Census division. Hurricane
When was it built? 1891
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number.85000291- 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
176 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Leeds Tithing Office
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,559 acres in total. 53 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
57
Natural
53
Equipment and vehicle use
28
Debris and open burning
13
Recreation and ceremony
9
Fireworks
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Smoking
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
103 workings within 5 miles of Leeds Tithing Office: 73 past producers, 12 occurrences, 7 producers, 7 prospects.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Leeds, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 hail.
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.
The WHITE REEF RAWS station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The White Reef RAWS mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 61 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The WHITE REEF RAWS station recorded a wind gust of 61 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
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.
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.
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