Julien Inscription

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Denis Julien Inscription is a rock-carved graffito purportedly left by French- American trapper Denis Julien in southern Utah when he was traveling in the area in the late 1830s or early 1840s, one of the first Europeans to enter the area. The inscription is within the boundaries of Canyonlands National Park, on the bank of the Colorado River.”
Wikipedia article Denis Julien Inscription (San Juan County, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1988 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lower Red Lake vicinity, Moab
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. site
Also known as. Canyonlands National Park MRA
Census division. Blanding
National Register reference number. 88001248 - 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

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Julien Inscription between 1993 and 2009, burning about 123 acres in total. 4 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	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
17 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	CYCLONE
17 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	CYCLONE
14 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	SPANISH BT
18 June 2005	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	ELEPHANT
1 June 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	RED TAIL AVIATION
30 May 2008	Recreation and ceremony	117 acres	Canyonlands National Park	SPANISH BOTTOM
21 May 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	5.3 acres	Canyonlands National Park	SPANISH
18 May 2009	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	HARTS DRAW

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Julien Inscription: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Spanish Bottom Challedony	Gemstone	Past Producer
	Spanish Bottoms Chalcedony	Gemstone	Occurrence	Chalcedony, Chert, Jasper

Every working recorded in San Juan 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 88001248 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 23 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.