Downing Apartments

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Weber County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 357--359 Twenty-seventh St., Ogden, 84401
When was it listed? December 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Three-Story Apartment Buildings in Ogden, 1908-1928 MPS
Census division. Ogden
National Register reference number. 87002160 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Downing Apartments between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,646 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 15 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	52
Natural	25
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	15
Recreation and ceremony	12
Debris and open burning	11
Fireworks	9
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2017	Fireworks	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	5145 AIRPORT RD
9 September 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	WEBER STATE
8 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	12TH STREET
6 September 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	35 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	TAYLOR CANYON
5 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	59 OGDEN CYN
5 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LEWIS PEAK
3 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	AJ CREEK
28 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	JET WAY

Every fire recorded in Weber County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Downing Apartments: 23 prospects, 10 past producers, 7 producers, 2 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Geothermal. 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
Harrisville Brick Plant Deposit	Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ogden Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Norman Fluorspar Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1953, 1957
Norman Fluorspar Deposit	Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Norman Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Norman Mine	Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1953
Clarence Waterfall Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Dereice Balls Sand and Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unidentified Occurrence	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Unidentified Occurrence	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Weber County

Storms near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogden, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 2 lightning. The reports record 8 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1998	Tornado (F1)	Ogden	6 hurt, $10,000	no account filed
May 1996	Tornado (F1)	North Ogden	1 hurt, $600,000	no account filed
May 1999	Lightning	South Ogden	1 hurt	A UTA bus driver was waiting outside his bus for passengers in South Ogden when it started to rain. As he put up his umbrella a nearby bolt of lightning glanced his umbrella and shot down through his right arm He felt a burning sensation in his body and after driving a mile he decided to get medical attention. His injuries turned out to be very minor for this lucky man.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	South Ogden	$100,000	Severe thunderstorms blew through Weber County from South Ogden to Liberty, producing damaging winds, hail and heavy rain. Trees were reported down on a home and cars in Ogden, along with basement flooding of homes and some businesses. Trees in Liberty were toppled, with .83 inches of rain reported in 10 minutes.
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	$100,000	no account filed
August 2003	Lightning	North Ogden	$15,000	Lightning struck the roof of a residence in North Ogden, burning four holes and traveling 30 feet to start a house fire.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	$10,000	A 63 knot wind gust was measured at the Ogden Airport ASOS, and at least a dozen power poles were knocked down, along with a number of trees.
August 2005	Flash Flood	South Ogden	$5,000	Local streets and 2 homes had flooded basements along with minor wind damage from a thunderstorm
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	South Ogden	$1,000	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	South Ogden	$500	In South Ogden, 6-inch tree limbs were snapped off.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	South Ogden	-	A trained spotter reported broken tree branches knocked down by severe wind gusts from a thunderstorm near the Ogden Country Club.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	South Ogden	-	A trained spotter discovered multiple snapped trees from severe wind gusts associated from a thunderstorm within Leavitts Mortuary and Aultorest Memorial Park in Ogden.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	South Ogden	-	A trained spotter reported that a street light was knocked over by severe wind gusts associated with a thunderstorm.
May 2021	Hail	North Ogden	-	Nickel-sized hail fell in North Ogden.
September 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	-	The Ogden-Hinckley Airport automated weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
April 2010	Hail	North Ogden	-	Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported near North Ogden, with the hail accumulating 2 to 3 inches deep.
August 2007	Hail	North Ogden	-	Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches fell in North Ogden.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	-	Power lines down in Ogden and South Ogden
August 2003	Hail	North Ogden	-	Thunderstorms dumped 3/4 inch hail in and around North Ogden.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	South Ogden	-	Dry Microburst wind gusts to 60 mph (52 kts) were recorded in South Ogden. Winds from the same cell knocked over several large tents set up at Hill AFB for an air show.
August 1999	Funnel Cloud	North Ogden	-	A funnel cloud was spotted near Ben Lomond in Weber County.
May 1998	Hail	Ogden	-	no account filed
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ogden	-	no account filed
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	South Ogden	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weber 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Browning Apartments	under 500 feet	1985
Barnhart Apartments	under 500 feet	1987
Rose Apartments	under 500 feet	1987
Congregation B'rith Sholem Synagogue	under 500 feet	1985
Avelan Apartments	0.1 miles	1987
La Frantz Apartments	0.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002160 in Record Group 79.
Weber County	All 75 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.
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.