Josie Bassett Morris Ranch Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Josie Bassett Morris Ranch Complex comprises a small complex of buildings in what is now Dinosaur National Monument in northeastern Uintah County, Utah, United States. The complex is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Josie Bassett Morris Ranch Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Uintah 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

Listed as. Morris, Josie Bassett, Ranch Complex - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 40, Dinosaur National Monument, 84035
When was it listed? December 1986
Category. district
Also known as. Dinosaur National Monument MRA
Census division. Vernal
National Register reference number. 86003394 - 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Josie Bassett Morris Ranch Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. 43 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	43
Recreation and ceremony	6
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MATT WARNER
8 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Dinosaur National Monument	ROADS END
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	HAPPYTOUR1
3 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	TURTLE
24 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Dinosaur National Monument	ILLEGAL CAMPFIRE 345
1 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	186 acres	Dinosaur National Monument	GREEN RIVER
7 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	SHOW FIRE
3 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Vernal Field Office	BLUE MTN 2

Every fire recorded in Uintah County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Josie Bassett Morris Ranch Complex: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Split Mountain Gorge	Gold, Platinum	Occurrence	Stream Placer
Split Mountain Warm Spring	Geothermal	Unknown
Eagle Nest	Uranium	Unknown
Eagle Nest Claim	Uranium	Past Producer	Carnotite
Gold Deposits	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
National Monument North Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Limestone, Quartzite
National Monument South Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
The V Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sandstone
The V Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Uintah 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Quarry Visitor Center	6.7 miles	1986
	Earl Douglass Workshop-Laboratory	6.7 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003394 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Uintah County	All 17 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.