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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1900.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Benjamin and Jane Cook Farrer House
Built in 1900. 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. Farrer, Benjamin and Jane Cook, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 530 E. 8800 South, Sandy, 84070
- When was it listed? August 1992
- Category. building
- Also known as. Sandy City MPS
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- When was it built? 1900
- National Register reference number. 92001065 - 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
12 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Benjamin and Jane Cook Farrer House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 28 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 | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
| 19 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BELLS RESERVOIR |
| 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 |
| 12 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | FERGNSON |
| 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 59 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Benjamin and Jane Cook Farrer House: 29 producers, 17 past producers, 13 occurrences. 29 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Gold, Gold, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Jay Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Cottonwood Clay Pits | Clay | Producer | ||
| Gold Willow Mine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Lower Bells Canyon Workings | Copper, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Midvale Minerals Co | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic | Past Producer | ||
| New State Mine | Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Wastch-Utah Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Willow Creek Quartzite Quarry | Quartz | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Alix Prospect | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Big Mitt and Blue Point Mine | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1904 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John A. Anderson House | under 500 feet | 1992 |
 | Michael Jensen House | under 500 feet | 1999 |
 | John and Elizabeth Brown Oldham House | under 500 feet | 1997 |
| John Thomas and Myrtle Bodell Ostler House | under 500 feet | 1999 | |
 | Niels and Mary Ann Fitzgerald Thompson House | under 500 feet | 1997 |
 | August M. and Mabel Jensen Nelson House | 0.1 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001065 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.