Cutler Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Box Elder County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off UT 30 at Bear River, Beaver Dam, 84306
When was it listed? April 1989
Category. district
Also known as. Electric Power Plants of Utah MPS
Census division. Tremonton
National Register reference number. 89000280 - 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Cutler Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,025 acres in total. 6 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	37
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,100 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WEST HILLS
3 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LONG DIVIDE I
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BEAVER DAM 2400 WEST
18 September 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LONG DIVIDE II
13 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MALAD RIVER BOTTOMS
1 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WEST CANAL
1 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SR30 MP2
1 September 1998	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BRAD PETERSON

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cutler Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District: 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Clarkston	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Clarkston	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Collingston Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Sand
Collingston Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hansen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Hansen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Hampton's Ford Stage Stop and Barn	4.3 miles	1971
	Plymouth School	5.5 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000280 in Record Group 79.
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.