Transcontinental Railroad Grade

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Transcontinental Railroad Grade is a section of railway in northwest Utah, United States, near Corinne, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Transcontinental Railroad Grade, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Box Elder 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

Address. Roughly, from 6 mi. W of Corinne running approximately 13 mi. along UT 83, Corinne, 84337
When was it listed? December 1994
Category. structure
Census division. Howell-Snowville
National Register reference number. 94001423 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Transcontinental Railroad Grade between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,386 acres in total. 9 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	17
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	9
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SHERRIE MCNEELY
5 September 2001	Natural	40 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MOULDING
20 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HWY 102 MP 1 & 2
20 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	THIOKOL PLANT 3
2 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	OKADA'S PENROSE
17 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PENROSE MOUNTAIN
15 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	JACKSON FIRE
1 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	LITTLE MOUNTAIN NW

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Transcontinental Railroad Grade: 14 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. 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
Christensen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Christensen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Compton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Compton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jensen #02054 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Jensen #02054 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Jensen #02055 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Jensen #02055 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Unnamed	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this property

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corinne, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2024	Lightning	Corinne	1 killed, 2 hurt	A lightning strike capsized a fishing boat with three passengers on board, throwing the passengers into the river, leading to one fatality and two injuries. First responders were called just after midnight local time.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Corinne	$1,000,000	Flooding was reported in Corrine. Reports of basement flooding and photos of flooding to crops, farmland, and yards were observed. A rainfall amount of 3.44 inches was recorded in Corrine.

Every storm recorded in Box Elder 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 94001423 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Box Elder County	All 45 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.