Copperton Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Copperton Historic District is a historic district in Copperton, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article Copperton Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by SR 48, Fifth E, Hillcrest, and Second West Sts., Copperton, 84006
When was it listed? August 1986
Category. district
Census division. Bingham
National Register reference number. 86002642 - 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Copperton Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 9 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
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
20 September 2008	Natural	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HERRIMAN
30 August 2006	Natural	6.0 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	HIGH COUNTRY
24 August 2011	Natural	4.5 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	HERRIMAN
24 August 2011	Natural	4.5 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ROSE CANYON
18 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LAMB
14 August 2006	Natural	7.5 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	HERRIMAN 2
8 July 2010	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	WILD HORSE
31 July 2016	Natural	8.4 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OAKS SPRINGS 3

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 141 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 141 workings within 5 miles of Copperton Historic District: 86 past producers, 26 occurrences, 15 prospects, 12 producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Copper, Lead, Silver. 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
Apex-Delaware Group Mines	Copper, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Sphalerite
Bazouk	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Bingham Canyon	Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum	Plant	1887, 1904, 2009
Bingham District	Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, Platinum, Zinc, Lead, Bismuth, Nickel, Selenium, Palladium	Producer	1873, 2009
Bingham Open Pit Mine	Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper, Zinc, Platinum, Bismuth, Lead, Selenium, Tellurium, Nickel, Palladium	Producer	1863, 1868
Boston Consolidated Group	Copper, Gold, Lead	Past Producer
Castro Gulch Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Anglesite, Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Sphalerite
Commercial	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Tellurium	Past Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Cuprite, Enargite, Malachite, Melaconite, Pyrite, Tenorite
Dalton and Lark	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Iron	Past Producer	Replacement
Dixon Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	Galena, Gold, Sphalerite

Every working 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Utah Copper Company Mine Superintendent's House	under 500 feet	1985
Copperton Community Methodist Church	0.5 miles	2007
Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine	4.1 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002642 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Salt Lake County	All 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.