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Bear River High School Science Building

Built in 1935 (PWA Moderne). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Bear River High School Science Building, at 1450 S. Main St. in Garland, Utah, was built as a Works Progress Administration public works project in 1935.”

Wikipedia article Bear River High School Science Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Box Elder County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1935, PWA Moderne.

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. 1450 S. Main St., Garland, 84312
  • When was it listed? April 1985
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
  • Census division. Tremonton
  • When was it built? 1935
  • Architectural style. PWA Moderne
  • National Register reference number. 85000797 - 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Bear River High School Science Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,818 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined79
Equipment and vehicle use23
Debris and open burning11
Natural7
Fireworks3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBENNETTS
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWASHAKIE
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBOX ELDER
3 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use197 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCORNWALL
3 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsKEITH FRIDAL
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRANGE BULLS
20 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands378
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRIVERSIDE

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Bear River High School Science Building: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A.M. Porter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Am.Porter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
D Homer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
D. Homer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Holdaway #02170 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Holdaway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Holdaway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
L S Capener LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
L. Larsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
L.Larsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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

4 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
Holmgren Farmstead0.7 miles2001
Garland Carnegie Library1.1 miles1984
Fryer Hotel3.5 miles1988
Hampton's Ford Stage Stop and Barn5.2 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85000797 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Box Elder CountyAll 45 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.