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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Nels A. Nelson House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Nelson, Nels A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 8840 S. 90 East, Sandy, 84070
- When was it listed? August 1992
- Category. building
- Also known as. Sandy City MPS
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- National Register reference number. 92001062 - 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
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Nels A. Nelson House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TONYA |
| 1 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | QUAIL HOLLOW |
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SIENNA |
| 31 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BINGHAM ASSIST |
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | COLD SPRING |
| 12 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | UNION ASSIST |
| 7 June 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | MURDOCK |
| 29 June 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | RIVER |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 37 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Nels A. Nelson House: 20 producers, 10 past producers, 7 occurrences. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Clay Pits | Clay | Producer | ||
| Midvale Minerals Co | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic | Past Producer | ||
| Subsurface Brines | Bromine | Producer | 1914, 1917 | |
| Beehive Sand and Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Beehive Sand and Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cottonwood Heights Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Draper Gravel Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Draper Gravel Pit No. 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Draper Gravel Pit No. 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Lower Bells Canyon Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hyrum and Mary A. Terry Peterson Mickelson House | under 500 feet | 1999 |
 | Y. Martin and Hannah Nelson Anderson House | under 500 feet | 1999 |
| Charles Peterson House | under 500 feet | 1992 | |
 | Alfred C. and Annie L. Olsen Anderson House | 0.1 miles | 1999 |
 | Sandy Co-Op Block | 0.2 miles | 1992 |
 | Hyrum and Selma Erickson Jacobson House | 0.2 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001062 in Record Group 79. |
| Salt Lake County | All 399 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.