Hinckley High School Gymnasium

Built in 1936 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Hinckley High School Gymnasium, located off US 5/50 or at 100 East south of 200 North, in Hinckley, Utah, was built in 1935-36. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Hinckley High School Gymnasium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Millard County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1936, Art Deco architecture, by Scott & Welch.

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. Off US 5/50, Hinckley, 84635
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
Census division. Delta
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
Architect. Scott & Welch
National Register reference number. 85000809 - 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Hinckley High School Gymnasium between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	STYLER FARM
21 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Central Area	WEST HINCKLEY
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	RIVER BANK
6 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MOODY FARM
5 August 2020	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Central Area	MUD FORT
22 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OASIS
2 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	THATCHER
15 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FORT DESERET

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hinckley High School Gymnasium: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit 14074	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
	Utah Dept. of Highways Borrow Pit #14074	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Millard County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinckley, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 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
August 2021	Hail	Hinckley	-	Penny-sized hail fell.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hinckley	-	The media relayed a report of a sensor measuring a maximum wind gust of 65 mph due to a thunderstorm passing over the town of Hinckley.

Every storm recorded in Millard 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Millard Academy	under 500 feet	1982
Deseret Relief Society Hall	2.7 miles	1995
Fort Deseret	4.3 miles	1970
Van's Hall	5.0 miles	1995
Gunnison Massacre Site	6.7 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000809 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Millard County	All 26 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.