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Photograph of Utah State Training School Amphitheater and Wall
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Utah State Training School Amphitheater and Wall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Utah State Training School Amphitheater and Wall, is an amphitheater and boundary wall in northwest American Fork, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Utah State Training School Amphitheater and Wall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah County · listed in 1994 · category: Structure.

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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Roughly 845 E. 700 N, American Fork, 84003
  • When was it listed? October 1994
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Public Works Buildings TR
  • Census division. American Fork-Pleasant Grove
  • National Register reference number. 94001206 - 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Utah State Training School Amphitheater and Wall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,878 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined73
Debris and open burning17
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony11
Fireworks5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBUCKWALTER
6 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHIP FIRE
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMAHOGANY
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsILLEGAL BURN
4 September 2005Naturalunder an acreTimpanogos Cave National MonumentWESTTOUR
29 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBUCKWALTER #2
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSOLO # 3
27 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCOWBOY

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Utah State Training School Amphitheater and Wall: 22 producers, 20 past producers, 8 occurrences. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mahogany Mtn. ProspectCalciumOccurrenceReplacement
Wadley PitBrick ClayProducerSurface
Mcfarland DepositFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Preston Canyon ProspectSilverOccurrence
Smooth Canyon ProspectSilverOccurrence
Wadley PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Ellis Clay PitClayPast ProducerSurface
Ellis Mcfarland and Smith PitsClayProducer
Ellis, Mcfarland & Smith PitsClayOccurrence
Mcfarland Clay PitClayPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names American Fork, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998HailAmerican Fork$300,000no account filed
September 1997HailAmerican Fork$25,000no account filed
September 2013Tornado (EF0)American Fork$10,000A small tornado was spotted and recorded by a member of the public. The tornado removed a metal roof from a barn, and did minor damage to trees and other outbuildings in the area.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindAmerican Fork$1,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAmerican Fork-The American Fork Marina mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindAmerican Fork-The American Fork Marina mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 58 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindAmerican Fork-The sensor at American Fork Marina recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
August 2010HailAmerican Fork-Hail stones ranging in size from 0.75 inches to 1 inch in diameter were reported near Highland.
August 1997HailAmerican Fork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Utah 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Henry & Elizabeth Parker Chipman House0.8 miles2010
Dunn-Binnall House & Farmstead1.1 miles2010
American Fork Cemetery Rock Wall1.2 miles1994
Warren B. Smith House1.2 miles1979
Charles T.H. Goode House1.3 miles1987
American Fork Presbyterian Church1.5 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001206 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Utah CountyAll 183 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.