Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The John Steele House is the historic home of a prominent early resident of Toquerville, Utah. One of the Mormon pioneers, John Steele built the house in 1862 and lived there until his death in 1903, working as an herbal physician and serving in a number of town and county offices.”
Wikipedia article John Steele House (Toquerville, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.88000401- 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
184 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 184 fires within 5 miles of John Steele House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,838 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 1 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
68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
62
Equipment and vehicle use
24
Debris and open burning
13
Fireworks
6
Recreation and ceremony
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Smoking
2
Firearms and explosives use
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
89 workings within 5 miles of John Steele House: 63 past producers, 10 producers, 7 prospects, 5 occurrences.
10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Uranium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Toquerville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail.
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.
Law enforcement reported flooding in addition to video showing that Ash Creek was flowing outside of bankfull levels. An additional photo showed Ash Creek at the top of Blackridge at exit 36 was underwater.
Washington County dispatch officials reported water over the road on State Route 17 near Toquerville, briefly closing the road. The bridge where water crossed the road is above full grown trees in the creek below, indicating a significant rise in water level.
Heavy rain produced flash flooding that temporarily closed Interstate 15 near the town of Leeds. Flash flooding was also reported in Leeds and Washington City.
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.
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.
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