Central Pacific Railroad Grade Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Box Elder County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 87 mi. segment between Umbria jct. 9 mi. E. of NV border around N end of Great Salt Lake to Golden Spike NHS, Park Valley
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. district
Census division. West Box Elder
National Register reference number. 87000699 - 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Central Pacific Railroad Grade Historic District in 1999, burning about 15 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
Natural	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 1999	Natural	15 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BLACK HILLS

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Central Pacific Railroad Grade Historic District: 9 occurrences, 9 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Asbestos. 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
Newfoundland Marble	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer	Marble
Pack Rat Cyn	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	Scheelite
Unnamed Deposit	Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Barite
Unnamed Deposit	Gold	Producer
White Rock Claims	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
Desert Flower No. 1 Mine	Tungsten, Copper	Past Producer	Contact Metamorphic
Mineral Monarch Mine	Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Newfoundland Marble	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Nowhere Knoll Gypsite	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Gypsum
Nowhere Knoll Gypsite	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000699 in Record Group 79.
Box Elder County	All 45 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.