Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Provo Canyon Guard Quarters is a historic building located in Provo Canyon in northeastern Utah County, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article Provo Canyon Guard Quarters, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah County · listed in 1986 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.86001291- 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
178 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Provo Canyon Guard Quarters
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,460 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 25 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
46
Natural
37
Recreation and ceremony
30
Arson/incendiarism
25
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Fireworks
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Debris and open burning
5
Smoking
2
Other causes
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of Provo Canyon Guard Quarters: 9 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Lead, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Provo, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud.
The reports record 15 injuries. 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.
A 71 mph (62 kts) wind gust was reported from a severe thunderstorm. Several trees and power poles were knocked down or damaged. There was also damage to cars and structures.
Severe thunderstorms along a cold front blew through Utah County, tearing down tree limbs, blowing shingles off roofs and flipping over a trampoline. Springville reported a gust to 69 mph (60 kts) and Provo BYU recorded a gust to 62 mph (54 kts).
Several trees were knocked down around the Orem and Provo area as the result of an overnight microburst. The highest recorded wind gust was 51 mph near Vineyard.
The Eyring Science Center sensor in Provo recorded a 60 mph wind gust. In addition, multiple large trees were knocked down in the Orem area from this early morning thunderstorm.
An upper level disturbance associated cold front brought thunderstorms and microburst winds to the Wasatch front. In Tooele county, gusts were estimated between 70 and 80 mph. In West Jordan, a Cessna 140 broke its tie downs, was blown 50 feet and flipped over. Also in West Jordan, a swamp cooler was blown off a house. In Layton, a U Haul van was overturned. The top 20 feet of several trees were snapped of in Syracuse. In Kearns, gusts estimated between 80 and 90 mph snapped a 50 foot tall pine tree of at the base.
A squall line formed in advance of an approaching cold front. Most of the moisture ahead of the cold front was in the middle and high levels. Therefore, the thunderstorms that developed, produced microburst winds. In the Tremonton area, these winds blew a few small fences and trees down, and a few shingles off houses. However, one larger 100-year-old pine tree was blown over onto a house, but it caused no major damage. The large hail that fell was brief and soft, and caused no damage.
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.
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.
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