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Photograph of Mt. Carmel School and Church
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Mt. Carmel School and Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Carmel School and Church - also known as the Historic Rock Church - is an historic church building and school located along U.S. Route 89 in the Mount Carmel community in what is now part of the town of Orderville, Utah, United States.”

Wikipedia article Mt. Carmel School and Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Kane County · listed in 1987 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off UT 89, Mt. Carmel, 84755
  • When was it listed? November 1987
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Orderville
  • National Register reference number. 87002061 - 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Mt. Carmel School and Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 782 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 4 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
Natural79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficePINK
9 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSUGAR KNOL
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeCLAY FLAT
5 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSTEWART
3 September 2007Natural1.0 acresCedar City Field OfficeREED CYN 2
28 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeCARMEL JCT
28 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWHITE ROCK
25 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGRAVIL PIT

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Mt. Carmel School and Church: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13010Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13005Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13010Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.13005Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.13008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Dixon, Maynard, and Edith Hamlin House and Studio0.6 miles2002
Valley School2.7 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87002061 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kane CountyAll 13 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.