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Photograph of Minersville City Hall
Photograph by Ntsimp, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Minersville City Hall

Built in 1935 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Beaver County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1935, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 600 W. Main St., Minersville, 84752
  • When was it listed? April 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
  • Census division. Milford-Minersville
  • When was it built? 1935
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 85000795 - 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Minersville City Hall between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10,998 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 4 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
Natural41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Firearms and explosives use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeGOULES
9 September 2000Smokingunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeHANGING RK
8 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeJACKS PEAK
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeCHECKERBOARD
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeHANGING ROCK
3 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBURN PERMIT
27 September 2008Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMINERSVILLE DAM
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOW PATH

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Minersville City Hall: 29 past producers, 6 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Maple AreaManganeseOccurrenceVein
CreoleTungsten, Copper, Iron, Lead, Silver, Zinc, GoldProducer
Creole MineCopper, Tungsten, Silver, Bismuth, GoldPast Producer1910, 1950
Creole MineTungsten, CopperPast Producer
Geyser Basin PropertyUraniumProducer
Harriett MineCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Lincoln Mine GroupSilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer1845, 1855
Radium Dotsons Warm SpringsGeothermalUnknown
South Black Mountain AditCopperOccurrenceStockwork
Lincoln MineZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer1854

Every working recorded in Beaver County

Storms near this property

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minersville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 dust devil, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMinersville$5,000A tree fell on a power line.
March 2014Dust DevilMinersville$1,000A trampoline was blown out of a backyard and into some power lines in Minersville. Recorded wind gusts in the area at the time were relatively light, so it is likely that this was caused by a strong dust devil. Time listed is approximate.
July 2018Flash FloodMinersville-Heavy rain fell on the Black Mountain Fire burn scar, resulting in a debris flow that temporarily closed State Route 130 near Minersville.
August 2018Flash FloodMinersville-Heavy rain resulted in a flash flood that temporarily closed state Route 21 near milepost 85.

Every storm recorded in Beaver 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Rollins-Eyre House0.3 miles1995
Jenner-Griffiths House0.4 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85000795 in Record Group 79.
Beaver CountyAll 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.