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One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1879.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Joseph M. and Celestia Smith House
Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Smith, Joseph M. and Celestia, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 12357 S. Relation St. (1565 East), Draper, 84020
- When was it listed? April 1994
- Category. building
- Census division. Salt Lake City
- When was it built? 1879
- National Register reference number. 94000291 - 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
43 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Joseph M. and Celestia Smith House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,293 acres in total. 12 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 | 17 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | LONE PEAK |
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | BELLS |
| 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 |
| 16 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WOODS LANDING ASSIST |
| 16 September 1992 | Natural | 30 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | not named |
| 15 September 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | ENNISS PEAK |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PRESERVE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 32 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Joseph M. and Celestia Smith House: 11 producers, 11 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Geothermal, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alix Prospect | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Aqueduct Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Crystal Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Dry Hollow Prospects | Iron | Occurrence | Hematite | |
| Lower Bells Canyon Workings | Copper, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Lucky Chance | Lead | Past Producer | Galena, Pyrite | |
| Rocky Mouth Canyon Adit | Copper, Molybdenum, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Dipper Mine | Gold | Past Producer | 1925, 1946 | |
| Galloway, Venus and Shaw Prospects | Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Lower Bells Canyon Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this property
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Draper, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Lightning | Draper | 1 killed, 2 hurt | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Draper | $1,200,000 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Draper | $15,000 | A broadcast media story and associated video showed localized basement flooding due to heavy rains in the area. No exact addresses were provided, so the flood area is estimated. |
| September 2023 | Flood | Draper | $15,000 | A broadcast media story and associated video showed localized basement flooding due to heavy rains in the area. No exact addresses were provided, so the flood area is estimated. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Draper | - | This thunderstorm dropped golf ball sized hail across portions of Interstate 15. The Utah Highway Patrol reported numerous accidents due to the hail. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lauritz H. and Emma Smith House | under 500 feet | 2006 |
 | Mary Smith House | 0.2 miles | 1994 |
 | Lauritz Smith House | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Crossgrove House | 0.3 miles | 2012 |
 | Perry and Agnes Wadsworth Fitzgerald House | 0.5 miles | 2004 |
 | Glen M. and Roxie Walbeck House | 0.5 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94000291 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.
- 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.