D.C.C. & P. Inscription "B"

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Inscription "B" is a survey mark that was left at the confluence of the Colorado and Green rivers in Utah in 1889 by the Robert Brewster Stanton party as they surveyed a railway route.”
Wikipedia article D.C.C. & P. Inscription "B", CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1988 · category: Site · built in 1889.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Confluence vicinity, Moab
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. site
Also known as. Canyonlands National Park MRA
Census division. Hanksville
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 88001251 - 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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of D.C.C. & P. Inscription "B" between 1993 and 2017, burning about 6 acres in total. 8 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
13 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	CRYPTO
17 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	ACCESS
14 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	EL WASH
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
29 May 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	STOVE CAMP

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 D.C.C. & P. Inscription "B": 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 Wayne 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 88001251 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 18 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.