Meeks-Green Farmstead

Built in 1851. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Meeks-Green Farmstead in Parowan, Utah was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The listing included four contributing buildings and one contributing structure.”
Wikipedia article Meeks-Green Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Iron County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1851.

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 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Meeks--Green Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Approximately 40 N. 400 West, Parowan, 84761
When was it listed? April 1994
Category. building
Census division. Parowan
When was it built? 1851
National Register reference number. 94000295 - 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

87 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Meeks-Green Farmstead between 1994 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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 2000	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	BROAD CYN
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CANYON ROAD
30 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	RED CANYON
29 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LOVELL
28 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	STRANTON
22 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Southwest Area	400 WEST
21 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	P HILL
2 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	VALENTINE

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Meeks-Green Farmstead: 22 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Manganese. 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
Unnamed Prospect	Manganese	Prospect	1942
Grand Castle Prospect	Silica	Past Producer	Surface
Grand Castle Prospect	Silica	Past Producer
White Sands Nos 4 - 22 , and 35 - 37	Silica	Producer	Placer
Cemetary Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cemetery Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Basalt, Conglomerate, Quartzite, Sand, Sandstone
Dry Canyon Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Basalt, Sandstone
Dry Canyon Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
East Parowan Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
East Parowan Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this property

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parowan, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 8 flash 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
August 2003	Flash Flood	Parowan	$25,000	There was major flash flooding in the town of Parowan. Despite sandbagging efforts, 26 homes were flooded with 6 homes sustaining an estimated $25,000 dollars in damage. People were also stranded for a time in Yankee Meadow, and State Route 143 was closed due to mud and rock slides.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Parowan	$10,000	Heavy rains caused flash flooding and a rockslide along State Route 143 between Parowan and Brian Head, with large boulders over the road.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Parowan	-	The Utah Department of Transportation reported a debris flow after heavy rain fell over the Brianhead Fire burn scar. The flood waters temporarily closed State Route 143.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Parowan	-	Heavy rain on the Brianhead Fire burn scar produced two debris flows that temporarily closed State Route 143.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Parowan	-	State Route 143 was temporarily closed after heavy rain over the Brianhead Fire burn scar resulted in a debris flow that moved over the road.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Parowan	-	Flash flooding along Parowan Creek spilled over onto Interstate 15, temporarily closing the right-hand lane of northbound Interstate 15.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Parowan	-	Winds blew down a tree which toppled power lines creating a power outage.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Parowan	-	Flash flooding and rock slides were reported over Highway 143 southeast of Parowan.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Parowan	-	Debris flowed over the highway in Parowan Canyon, and sandbags were used to protect homes from the rising water.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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

4 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
Parowan Meetinghouse	0.4 miles	1976
Jesse N. Smith House	0.5 miles	1975
William and Julia Lyman House	0.5 miles	2000
Ensign-Smith House	4.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000295 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iron County	All 15 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.