Photograph of Devil's Gate-Weber Hydroelectric Power Plant — Photograph by Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Devil's Gate-Weber Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Devil's Gate-Weber Hydroelectric Power Plant was built in 1909-1910 on the Weber River in northeastern Utah, United States, about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Ogden. It was built by the Utah Light and Railway Company under the direction of E.H.”
Wikipedia article Devil's Gate-Weber Hydroelectric Power Plant, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Morgan County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Devil's Gate--Weber Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. I-84 E of jct. with I-89, Ogden
When was it listed? April 1989
Category. district
Also known as. Electric Power Plants of Utah MPS
National Register reference number. 89000276 - 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Devil's Gate-Weber Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,610 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 4 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	38
Debris and open burning	19
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Recreation and ceremony	10
Fireworks	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WEBER CANYON 2
9 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LILAC LANE
9 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WEBER RIVER
9 September 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	WEBER STATE
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	I84MM95
7 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	FERNWOOD
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	POWER PLANT
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SNOW CREEK

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Devil's Gate-Weber Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District: 20 past producers, 18 prospects, 8 occurrences, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Talc-Soapstone, Copper, Iron. 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
Alice Mawle Mine	Uranium	Occurrence
Hobbs Reservoir Talc Locality	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence	Unknown
Strawberry Mine	Copper, Iron	Past Producer	Limonite, Malachite
Strawberry Mine	Copper, Iron	Past Producer
Unknown	Talc-Soapstone	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Gravel Pit In Twn 5n Rng 1e Sec 25	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ideal Rock Products South Weber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Parsons South Weber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unidentified Occurrence	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Morgan 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 89000276 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morgan County	All 7 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.