Santaquin Junior High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Santaquin Junior High School, located in Santaquin, Utah, United States, was built in 1935 as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Santaquin Junior High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 75 W. 100 South, Santaquin, 84655
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
Census division. Spanish Fork-Payson
Architectural style. PWA Moderne
National Register reference number. 85000817 - 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

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Santaquin Junior High School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,858 acres in total. 43 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	89
Natural	43
Recreation and ceremony	21
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Firearms and explosives use	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Fireworks	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2

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
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	I-15, MM251
8 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HYDRO
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5,832 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WILLIAM
6 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	P MOUNTAIN
6 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	BANDIT
5 September 2019	Natural	4.1 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WARM SPRINGS
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SANTIQUIN
4 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MP 241

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 78 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 78 workings within 5 miles of Santaquin Junior High School: 41 past producers, 20 occurrences, 13 producers, 3 unknowns. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Iron, Clay. 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
Black Balsam	Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect	1903
Black Balsam Prospect	Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Malachite
Brownstone Adit	Copper, Iron	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Chaffin Quarry	Dolomite, Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
El Dorado Mine	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
Elsie Jane Drift	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	Galena
Golden Leaf	Gold	Producer
Golden Relief Claims	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Gold
Goshen Hill Limestone Quarries	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Underground
Jewel No 9	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santaquin, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
September 2002	Flash Flood	Santaquin	$3,000,000	Heavy rains over several days caused flash flooding and mudslides below a burn area in Santaquin. The rain also caused a canal to overflow its banks in the same area, making conditions even worse. An estimated 3 million dollars damage was done to to about 40 homes and several vehicles as mudslides up to 7 feet deep moved down the hillside. No injuries were reported.
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Santaquin	$2,000	TSTM wind gusts damaged a shed, dog house, satellite dish, and knocked down powerlines
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Santaquin	$750	A tree was downed in Santaquin.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Santaquin	-	The Santaquin mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 58 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Santaquin	-	The West Mountain South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Santaquin	-	Mesonet station FG024 at West Mountain South recorded a wind gust of 58 mph.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Santaquin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Utah 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

6 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
Tintic Standard Reduction Mill	4.3 miles	1978
Payson Presbyterian Church	4.8 miles	1986
Payson Historic District	5.2 miles	2007
Samuel Douglass House	5.4 miles	1992
John Dixon House	5.5 miles	1978
Christopher F. Dixon Jr. House	5.5 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000817 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Utah County	All 183 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.