Midvale City Hall

Built in 1939 (Moderne architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1939, Moderne architecture.

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.
Address. 12 E. Center St., Midvale, 84047
When was it listed? April 1994
Category. building
Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
Census division. Salt Lake City
When was it built? 1939
Architectural style. Moderne architecture
National Register reference number. 94000293 - 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

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Midvale City Hall between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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	5
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
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
9 July 2019	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
7 June 1997	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MURDOCK
5 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV
21 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	963 W MOGUL PEAK RD
19 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	4430 S ATHERTON DR

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Midvale City Hall: 28 past producers, 27 producers, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 27 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
All Minerals Mill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Alta Champion	Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth	Producer	Vein
Dry Fork Mine	Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Midvale Minerals Co	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.	Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic	Producer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.	Lead, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
New England	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
New York & Great Western Mining, Smelting, and Development Company	Zinc, Lead	Past Producer
Onyx Ranch	Gemstone	Producer	Onyx
Spring and Summit	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midvale, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 lightning, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 7 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
May 2000	Lightning	Midvale	1 killed, 6 hurt	no account filed
May 2000	Lightning	Midvale	1 hurt	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Midvale	$75,000	Multiple trees fell on homes in the Midvale area. Additionally, power outages occurred.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Midvale	$30,000	A large tree fell on a car at an apartment complex parking lot.
May 1999	Lightning	Midvale	$5,000	Lightning struck Silvester's Restaurant in Midvale setting a portion of the roof on fire. Nobody was injured and the fire was quickly put out.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Midvale	$1,000	A tree was snapped off near its base in Midvale.
August 1993	Hail	Midvale	$500	Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles.
August 1993	Hail	Midvale	$500	Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles.
August 2017	Hail	Midvale	-	A member of the public reported dime-sized hail near Interstate 15 and 7200 South.
June 2016	Hail	Midvale	-	Nickel-sized hail was reported in Midvale.
July 2007	Flood	Midvale	-	Two foot deep water was reported at 7800S 300W.
August 2001	Hail	Midvale	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail in Midvale.

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
Salt Lake County Library	under 500 feet	1982
Gardner Mill	0.7 miles	1982
West Jordan Ward Meetinghouse	0.8 miles	1995
Thomas and Beda Anderberg House	1.3 miles	2004
John A. and Annie C. Olsen Johnson House	1.4 miles	1999
Jensen-Jensen House	1.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000293 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.