Valley School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Valley School in Orderville, Utah was built in 1935-36, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Valley School (Orderville, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Kane 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off US 89, Orderville, 84758
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
Census division. Orderville
Architect. Scott & Welch
National Register reference number. 85000807 - 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Valley School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 913 acres in total. 64 started naturally. 5 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
Natural	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55
Debris and open burning	14
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	SUGAR KNOL
5 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	STEWART
3 September 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Cedar City Field Office	REED CYN 2
28 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WHITE ROCK
25 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GRAVIL PIT
2 September 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	REED CYN 2
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GLENDALE ASSIST 2
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	COVE

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Valley School: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13003	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13004	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13003	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13004	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13005	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.13005	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orderville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2016	Hail	Orderville	-	One inch diameter hail was reported at Orderville.
August 2001	Flash Flood	Orderville	-	Flash flooding was reported in the Orderville area, along the East fork of the Virgin River to Muddy Creek. Reportedly some of the heaviest flooding in years.
October 2000	Hail	Orderville	-	A severe thunderstorm dumped 3/4 inch hail on the town of Orderville.

Every storm recorded in Kane 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Dixon, Maynard, and Edith Hamlin House and Studio	2.1 miles	2002
	Mt. Carmel School and Church	2.7 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000807 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kane County	All 13 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.