Alma Compton House

Built in 1908 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Alma Compton House is a historic house in Brigham City, Utah. It was built in 1908 as a cottage for Alma Compton, an immigrant from England, and designed in the Victorian style.”
Wikipedia article Alma Compton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Box Elder County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1908, Victorian architecture.

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.
Listed as. Compton, Alma, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 142 S. 100 East, Brigham City, 84302
When was it listed? April 1988
Category. building
Census division. Brigham City
When was it built? 1908
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 88000381 - 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Alma Compton House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,899 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 5 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	33
Natural	18
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Recreation and ceremony	13
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	COMANCHE
7 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OLD RESERVIOR
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	EIGHTY NINE FIRE
4 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	US FISH & WILDLIFE
27 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MANTUA WEST
25 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LOWER DOCK FLATS 3
23 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	UPPER DOCK FLATS
21 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CORINNE FISHING HOLE

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Alma Compton House: 28 past producers, 14 producers, 4 occurrences. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Copper, Antimony. 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
Copper Blossom	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Replacement
Copper Blossom	Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Dry Lake Antimony	Antimony, Silver	Past Producer	Replacement
Dry Lake Antimony	Antimony, Silver	Past Producer
Homber Mines	Graphite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver	Occurrence	Lead, Malachite, Schist
Homber Mines	Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Coal	Past Producer
Silver Eagle	Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Silver Eagle	Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Unknown	Limestone, General	Producer
Dry Lake	Antimony	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this property

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brigham City, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2004	Hail	Brigham City	$24,000	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Brigham City	$1,500	A carport was blown down in Brigham City.
June 2016	Hail	Brigham City	-	Hail with a diameter of one inch was reported in Brigham City.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Brigham City	-	Mesonet
May 1995	Hail	Brigham City	-	A severe thunderstorm put down hail up to one inch in diameter at the Thiokol plant.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Brigham City	-	Microburst thunderstorm winds did minor damage in Wendover as shingles were blown off the Port of Entry building. In Brigham City, several trees were blown down.
April 2005	Heavy Rain	Brigham City	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

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
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Building	under 500 feet	1996
Nels and Minnie Jenson House	under 500 feet	2000
Box Elder Stake Tabernacle	under 500 feet	1971
Jonathan and Jennie Knudson House	0.1 miles	2000
Knudson Brothers Building	0.2 miles	1992
Peter and Anna Christena Forsgren House	0.2 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000381 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.