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Photograph of Magna Community Baptist Church
Photograph by Bobshaw25, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Magna Community Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Magna Community Baptist Church is a historic church at 2916 S. 8900 West in Magna, Utah. It was built during 1928-33 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.”

Wikipedia article Magna Community Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1986 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2908 S. Eight Thousand Nine Hundred W, Magna, 84044
  • When was it listed? June 1986
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Magna
  • National Register reference number. 86001233 - 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Magna Community Baptist Church between 1998 and 2020, burning about 207 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands7200 WEST ASSIST
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFENCE LINE
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsU 111
20 August 2002Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSUNRISE
4 July 2008Fireworks18 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeKENNECOTT
10 July 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution35 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsKENNECOTT
22 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands95MM
11 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined134 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeCW000222

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake 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 Magna Community Baptist Church: 8 producers, 8 past producers, 3 plants. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Phosphorus-Phosphates, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Garfield Copper RefineryCopper, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
(Facility) Garfield Copper SmelterCopper, Silver, GoldPlant
Bonneville ConcentratorCopper, Gold, Zinc, Silver, LeadProducer
Magna ConcentratorCopper, MolybdenumProducer
Saltair PitSaltProducer
Saltair PlantHaliteProducer1888, 1982
Garfield Phosphate PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Garfield Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1954
Arthur ConcentratorCopperProducer
Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magna, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 funnel cloud, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Tornado (F0)Magna$5,000no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMagna$1,000A social media post showed pictures of a large tree that was snapped by strong winds in Magna.
June 2024HailMagna-Photos on social media indicated hail ranging from quarter- to half-dollar-sized.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMagna-A large tree, 2 feet in diameter, was uprooted in Magna.
May 2018HailMagna-Nickel-sized hail was observed in Magna.
April 1998Funnel CloudMagna-no account filed
April 1998Funnel CloudMagna-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudMagna-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudMagna-no account filed
June 1996HailMagna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Magna Commercial Downtown Historic District0.3 miles2021
Empress Theatre0.3 miles1985
William McLachlan Farmhouse7.6 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001233 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Salt Lake CountyAll 399 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.