Photograph of Desert Experimental Range — Photograph by United States Forest Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Desert Experimental Range Station Historic District

Built in 1976. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Range is a biosphere reserve and experimental range in western Millard County, Utah, United States, that is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Desert Biosphere Reserve, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Millard County · listed in 1994 · category: District · built in 1976.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 2.5 mi. N of US 21, 42 mi. W of Milford, Milford
When was it listed? April 1994
Category. district
Census division. Garrison-Sevier Lake
When was it built? 1976
National Register reference number. 94000267 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Desert Experimental Range Station Historic District: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ut Dept Hwys Pit No 14128	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept of Highways # 14128	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept of Highways Pit # 14127	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Millard 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000267 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Millard County	All 26 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.
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.