Springville Carnegie Library

Built in 1922 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Springville Carnegie Library at 175 South Main Street in Springville, Utah, United States is a Prairie School style Carnegie library building completed in 1922. It is one of the 23 Carnegie Libraries that were built in Utah.”
Wikipedia article Springville Carnegie Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1922, Prairie School architecture, by Ware & Treganza.

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.
Address. 175 S. Main St., Springville, 84663
When was it listed? December 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Carnegie Library TR
Census division. Springville-Mapleton
When was it built? 1922
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Ware & Treganza
National Register reference number. 91001821 - 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Springville Carnegie Library between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,508 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 15 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	51
Debris and open burning	23
Natural	21
Arson/incendiarism	15
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Fireworks	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SERVICEBERRY HOLLOW
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	848 acres	Northwest Area	ETHER HOLLOW
5 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	10J RXR
28 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FARMER FIRE
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	CAMEL PASS
25 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SPRING CREEK
24 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not named
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	ROUND MTN

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Springville Carnegie Library: 20 producers, 19 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver, Lead. 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
(Facility) Ironton Smelter Dump	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant	Surface
Clay Canyon Deposit	Gemstone	Producer
Ironton Adit	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Vein
Lower Slate Canyon Quarry	Slate, Dimension	Past Producer	Metamorphic
Milkmaid	Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer	Replacement
Silver Hill Property	Manganese	Producer
Us Ferto Corp	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Producer
Ironton North Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
Ironton South Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Surface
Three Sister Lime Quarry and Liln	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Calcite

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$20,000	Trees fell onto several hourse in Springville.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	$2,000	A tree fell on a church in Springville.
September 2007	Hail	Springville	-	Hail with diameters from 0.5 to 0.75 inches were reported in Springville.
June 2006	Hail	Springville	-	Estimated size...reported by NSSL. 0.75" report about the same time just east of this location
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	-	Several tree branches were downed between Provo and Springville as thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph (52 kts) blew through the area.
August 2002	Hail	Springville	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Springville	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Springville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Utah 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Roe A. and Louise R. Deal House	under 500 feet	1998
Johnson-Kearns Hotel	under 500 feet	1998
Caffrey and Davis Furniture Company-Senior Hotel	under 500 feet	1998
Yard-Groesbeck House	0.1 miles	1998
John T. and Henry T. Reynolds Jr. House	0.1 miles	1985
Milan and Margaret Packard House	0.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001821 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Utah County	All 183 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.