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Hanksville Meetinghouse-School

Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Hanksville Meetinghouse-School, at 18 South Center Street in Hanksville, Utah, was built starting around 1911 and completing around 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”

Wikipedia article Hanksville Meetinghouse-School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1911.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Hanksville Meetinghouse--School - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Sawmill Basin Rd., Hanksville, 84734
  • When was it listed? December 1990
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Mormon Church Buildings in Utah MPS
  • Census division. Hanksville
  • When was it built? 1911
  • National Register reference number. 90001825 - 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

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hanksville Meetinghouse-School between 1995 and 2009, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1995Natural2.0 acresRichfield Field OfficeFREMONT
26 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeTAMARAK
11 June 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRichfield Field OfficeFREMONT RV
4 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresRichfield Field OfficeFREMONTRIV
4 March 2009Debris and open burning1.8 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHANKSVILLE RIVER BOTTOM

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hanksville Meetinghouse-School: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper QueenUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanksville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2003: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1999Flash FloodHanksville$50,000Heavy rains in the Henry Mountains caused the Bull Creek to overflow its banks near Hanksville. Some basements were flooded near the creek, and even the Mayor's yard on the south end of town got flooded.
September 2003Flash FloodHanksville-A thunderstorm dropped 0.94 inches of rain in 30 minutes in Hanksville, producing flash floods east of town on Bull Creek.
September 2002Tornado (F0)Hanksville-A small tornado (F0) was observed 20 miles southeast of Hanksville in Wayne County. It was on the ground over open country for a short time, and debris from the ground was observed rising before the funnel dissipated.

Every storm 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001825 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 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.
  • 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.