Samuel Douglass House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Samuel Douglass House is a historic house located at 215 North Main Street in Payson, Utah, United States. It was updated to include Bungalow/craftsman architecture in 1912, and won a high school civics class award.”
Wikipedia article Samuel Douglass House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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. Douglass, Samuel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 215 N. Main St., Payson, 84651
When was it listed? August 1992
Category. building
Census division. Spanish Fork-Payson
National Register reference number. 92001059 - 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

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Samuel Douglass House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,711 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 8 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	159
Debris and open burning	60
Natural	22
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Firearms and explosives use	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Fireworks	3
Smoking	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 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	8660 S.
8 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	I-15, MM251
8 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HYDRO
7 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named
6 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	P MOUNTAIN
6 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SALEM CANAL FIRE
6 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	BANDIT
4 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WELDING

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Samuel Douglass House: 24 past producers, 17 producers, 13 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Lead, Dolomite. 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
Brownstone Adit	Copper, Iron	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Castilla Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
El Dorado Mine	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Underground
Elsie Jane Drift	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	Galena
Golden Relief Claims	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Gold
Jewel No 9	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Occurrence
Julie Nos 1,2,3,5,8,And 20	Copper	Occurrence
Keigley Ne Prospects	Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Surface/Underground
Keigley Quarry	Limestone, General, Dolomite	Producer	1943
Midnight Claim Group	Iron, Lead	Occurrence	Underground

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this property

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Payson, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Payson	$2,000	A small tornado (F0) touched down in Payson in Utah County. The tornado damaged about 100 feet of vinyl fence and lifted a small aluminum boat off of its trailer. The path of the tornado was about 100 yards.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Payson	$1,000	A large tree was downed/uprooted, including its associated large root ball.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Payson	-	Mesonet station UTBRC I-15 at Beer Creek recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Payson	-	The I-15 at Beer Creek mesonet station recorded an initial strong wind gust of 71 mph at 4:20 pm MST as a result of outflow winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. A second peak wind gust of 79 mph was recorded at 4:30 pm MST before winds began to subside.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Payson	-	The I-15 at Beer Creek sensor recorded a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
August 2016	Hail	Payson	-	Nickel- to quarter-sized hail was reported in multiple locations across Utah County, including Payson and Salem.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Payson	-	The Interstate 15 at Beer Creek sensor recorded a maximum wind gust of 58 mph.
August 2011	Hail	Payson	-	Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported near Payson.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Payson	-	A severe thunderstorm brought 58mph (50kts) wind gusts to the Payson area.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Payson	-	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
John Dixon House	under 500 feet	1978
Christopher F. Dixon Jr. House	under 500 feet	1977
Payson Historic District	0.3 miles	2007
Peteetneet School	0.5 miles	1990
Payson Presbyterian Church	0.7 miles	1986
Ira W. Gardner House	3.2 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001059 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.