Modena Elementary School

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1936.

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. Off UT 56, Modena, 84753
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
Census division. Beryl-Newcastle
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 85000806 - 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

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Modena Elementary School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 451 acres in total. 37 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
Natural	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
7 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GULCH ROAD FIRE/MODENA S
6 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	MEDITERRANEAN
6 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	PROFESSOR
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwest Area	HILLCREST
26 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FINAO
19 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	MT ELENORE
18 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	LOST MODENA
4 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	CLUMPAGE

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Modena Elementary School: 11 occurrences, 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Uranium. 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
Modena Alunite Vein	Aluminum	Occurrence	Vein
Red Ant No 1	Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Red Ant #1	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Red Ant #1	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence	Replacement
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown Manganese Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence	Vein
Unknown Manganese Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence	Vein
Unknown Manganese Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence
Mcdonald Wash Prospect	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Modena, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2005: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Flash Flood	Modena	$1,000	The town of Modena reported heavy rain with small hail and localized street flooding. The storm dumped 1.30 inches of rain in less than 30 minutes, and the wind and hail broke some windows.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Modena	-	Trees down
August 2005	Hail	Modena	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000806 in Record Group 79.
Iron County	All 15 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.