Emanuel and Ursella Stanworth House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Stanworth, Emanuel and Ursella, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 198 S. Main St., Hurricane, 84737
When was it listed? December 1992
Category. building
Census division. Hurricane
National Register reference number. 92001692 - 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Emanuel and Ursella Stanworth House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,206 acres in total. 15 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	37
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	15
Fireworks	8
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Firearms and explosives 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
7 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Strip Field Office	TOQUERVILLE ASSIST 2
4 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HURRICANE ASST.#9
3 September 2012	Natural	5.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HURRICANE ASSIST 05
3 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TOQUERSVILLE SOUTH
27 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southwest Area	STATE STREET
20 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	4.2 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SKY RANCH 2
18 September 2006	Debris and open burning	38 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	L
7 August 2005	Natural	127 acres	Southern Paiute Agency	SHIVWITS

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Emanuel and Ursella Stanworth House: 34 past producers, 8 producers, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
La Verkin Dixie Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Nevada	Copper, Uranium, Silver	Past Producer
Vanderbilt	Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Malachite
Vanderbilt No.5 Mines	Silver, Copper, Uranium	Past Producer
East Reef Area	Silver, Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	CHEMICAL SEDIMENT
Gould Ranch Tar Sand Deposit	Oil Sands	Occurrence
John Dee Claim	Uranium, Vanadium	Occurrence
Maud	Silver, Uranium, Copper	Past Producer	Malachite
Timpoweap Canyon Tar Sand Deposit	Oil Sands	Occurrence
Vanderbilt #4 Mines	Silver, Uranium, Copper	Past Producer	Malachite

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurricane, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 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
September 1997	Flood	Hurricane	$40,000	no account filed
October 2004	Flash Flood	Hurricane	$20,000	no account filed
March 2023	Flood	Hurricane	-	A public video showed water flowing over South 1150 West in Hurricane from Gould Wash.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Hurricane	-	Flash flooding was reported on North Creek near the town of Hurricane.
August 2001	Flash Flood	Hurricane	-	Washington County Sheriff reported at least a foot of water flowing across Highway 59 east of Hurricane as heavy rain pounded the area.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Hurricane	-	Moonsoon moisture arrived over southern Utah producing heavy rains and wet microburst winds. In New Harmony 2.00" of rain fell in 50 minutes, and flood water depth was two to three feet. The St. George AWOS recorded 0.80" less than 40 minutes which allowed for minor house and street flood. Wind gusts to 60 mph downed power lines and tree limbs. In Hurricane, wind gusts were estimated at 70 to 75 mph. Rainfall of 0.79" in 30 minutes allowed for two to three feet of water to flood State Road 9 between Interstate 15 and Hurricane. In Santa Clara, wind gusts downed tree branches, and 0.25" fell in ten minutes. In Bloomington, several homes and businesses were flooded and wind gusts took down power lines and tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Hurricane Historic District	under 500 feet	1995
Samuel and Elizabeth Isom House	under 500 feet	1993
Bradshaw House-Hotel	under 500 feet	1991
Hurricane Library-City Hall	0.2 miles	1991
Hurricane Canal	1.3 miles	1977
Hurricane-LaVerkin Bridge	1.4 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001692 in Record Group 79.
Washington County	All 93 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.