Santa Clara Relief Society House

Built in 1908 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Santa Clara Relief Society House is a historic house in Santa Clara, Utah. It was built in 1908 for the local chapter of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and it was designed in the Late Victorian style.”
Wikipedia article Santa Clara Relief Society House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1908, Victorian architecture.

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. Approximately 3036 W. Santa Clara Dr., Santa Clara, 84765
When was it listed? February 1994
Category. building
Also known as. Mormon Church Buildings in Utah MPS
Census division. St. George
When was it built? 1908
Architectural style. Victorian architecture
National Register reference number. 93001577 - 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Santa Clara Relief Society House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,211 acres in total. 21 started naturally. None 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	58
Fireworks	21
Natural	21
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	Cedar City Field Office	PARKWAY
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SNOW CANYON
30 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DIXIE DOWNS
28 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	1050PI STANDBY
24 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BLUE GOOSE
23 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	400 W.
23 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SHEET METAL SHOP
14 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	RED MOUNTAIN

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Santa Clara Relief Society House: 15 past producers, 6 producers, 4 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Silica. 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
P, L, P & M Claims	Uranium	Occurrence
Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Surface
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Producer
Dune Sand	Silica	Producer
Riprap #27056	Volcanic Materials	Occurrence	Basalt
Stone Quarry	Silica	Past Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Riprap No.27056	Pumice	Occurrence
3 Mile Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dune Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sand

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Clara, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
October 2010	Lightning	Santa Clara	2 hurt	Two 17 year old males were struck by lightning just outside Snow Canyon High School in St. George. The two boys were waiting for a ride home shortly after school let out; they took shelter from the rain under a nearby tree, where lightning struck and injured them both. CPR was performed at the site, and they were both in critical condition when they reached a hospital in Las Vegas, but both survived and are expected to make a full recovery.
September 2012	Flash Flood	Santa Clara	$7,500,000	An extended period of moderate to heavy rainfall occurred in southwest Utah on the morning of September 11th, during which 3.24 inches of rainfall was measured in Ivins, Utah. In nearby Santa Clara, an earthen dike (called the Laub Dike) burst, releasing all of the water in the associated retention pond. This water and mud flowed into nearby homes and businesses, damaging both public infrastructure and private properties. A total of $3.8 million in damage was done to public infrastructure, including damage to the dike, streets, and sidewalks. The flood also damaged 16 businesses and 63 homes; some of these buildings had internal damage due to water and mud flowing into them, while other buildings experienced serious structural damage.
April 2018	Lightning	Santa Clara	$400,000	A lightning strike started a fire that destroyed a home in St. George.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Santa Clara	$100,000	Houses and basements were flooded in both Santa Clara and Ivins. In addition, the water flowing over Santa Clara Drive was 1 foot deep and 40 feet wide.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Santa Clara	$30,000	Multiple power lines were reported down in Santa Clara.
September 1998	Lightning	Santa Clara	$10,000	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Santa Clara	$1,000	Microburst winds caused some damage and kicked up lots of dust in Santa Clara, as several power lines were knocked down.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Santa Clara	-	Power lines were downed in Santa Clara, with power outages occurring. Trees were blown over on Lava Flow Street.
September 2012	Flash Flood	Santa Clara	-	Flooding was reported over the bridge where old US Highway 91 crosses the Santa Clara River. This flooding caused the road to be closed for a few hours in the late morning and early afternoon.
July 2010	Hail	Santa Clara	-	Local law enforcement reported one inch diameter hail in Santa Clara.
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Santa Clara	-	1.13" measured at Badger Springs RAWS in 90 min ending at 630pm. Radar estimates 2-3" just south of RAWS.
September 2006	Hail	Santa Clara	-	Hail the size of quarters and ping pong balls.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Santa Clara	-	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.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Santa Clara	-	no account filed
September 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Santa Clara	-	no account filed

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
Frederick and Anna Maria Reber House	under 500 feet	1998
Hans George Hafen House	under 500 feet	1998
Santa Clara Tithing Company	0.1 miles	1998
Lemuel and Mary Ann Leavitt House	0.1 miles	1999
George and Bertha Graff House	0.2 miles	1998
Reber, Frederick, Jr., and Mary F., House	0.3 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001577 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.