Morgan High School Mechanical Arts Building

Built in 1936 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Morgan High School Mechanical Arts Building, at 20 N. One Hundred E in Morgan, Utah, was built in 1936.”
Wikipedia article Morgan High School Mechanical Arts Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 1986 · 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. 20 N. One Hundred E, Morgan, 84050
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
Census division. Morgan North
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
Architect. Scott & Welch
National Register reference number. 86000738 - 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

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Morgan High School Mechanical Arts Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,014 acres in total. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	83
Debris and open burning	64
Natural	23
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Fireworks	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WEST YOUNG
9 September 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LONGWIRE FIRE
7 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	COMO FIRE
7 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MILLRACE FIRE
7 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SCOTTS NALE
6 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PARKS DON'T SLEEP
4 September 2005	Natural	12 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WIDOWMAKER FIRE
4 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MOUNTAIN GREEN

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Morgan High School Mechanical Arts Building: 11 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Copper, Copper, Silver, Gold. 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
Red Eagle and Morgan Consolidated	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Utah Dept. of Highway Pit No. 15022	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Surface
Utah Highway Dept No 15022	Stone	Past Producer
Phil Shop Hollow Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Phil Shop Hollow Copper Prospect	Copper	Past Producer
Ree's Ranch Adit	Copper, Iron	Occurrence	Jarosite, Limonite, Malachite
Rees Ranch Adit	Copper, Iron	Past Producer
Unknown Claim	Iron	Occurrence	Hematite, Limonite
Unknown Claim	Iron	Past Producer
Gravel Pit In Twn 4n Rng 2e Sec 26	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgan, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2012	Flood	Morgan	$50,000	Heavy rain caused flooding in and around the town of Morgan, Utah, with the most damage occurring along Morgan Valley Drive. Four residential basements were flooded in this area, and water flowed over some roadways.
April 2023	Flood	Morgan	$5,000	State Route 66 between Morgan and East Canyon Reservoir began flooding on the 12th, resulting in closure. It was opened the next day.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Morgan	$1,000	Power lines were downed in Morgan.
July 2025	Hail	Morgan	-	Public social media photo of hail approximately 1 inch in diameter. Time estimated by radar.
September 2013	Funnel Cloud	Morgan	-	A funnel cloud was reported and photographed near Morgan, Utah. The time listed is approximate.
August 2002	Hail	Morgan	-	Severe thunderstorms produced 3/4 inch hail in the Morgan Valley.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Morgan Elementary School	0.2 miles	1986
Morgan Historic District	0.2 miles	2022
Morgan Union Pacific Depot	0.6 miles	2011
Daniel Heiner House	1.0 miles	1978
South Round Valley School	2.4 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000738 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morgan County	All 7 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.