Heber and Matilda Crook House and Lake Creek Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Wasatch County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Crook, Heber and Matilda, House and Lake Creek Schoolhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4800 E. Lake Creek Rd., Heber City, 84032
When was it listed? April 1995
Category. building
Census division. Heber City East
National Register reference number. 95000414 - 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Heber and Matilda Crook House and Lake Creek Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 919 acres in total. 15 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
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	15
Fireworks	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
7 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HEBER ASSIST 2
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SMITH FIRE
4 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	COYOTE LANE
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LAKE CREEK
21 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PHONE POLE
21 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	MILLERS
20 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	DUMPSTER-TIMBERLAKES
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BETHERS II

Every fire recorded in Wasatch County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Heber and Matilda Crook House and Lake Creek Schoolhouse: 7 producers, 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Gold. 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
Timber Lakes Quarries	Stone, Dimension	Producer	Sandstone
Webb Hollow Mine	Gold	Occurrence
Center Creek Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26022	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26023	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26024	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26026	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wasatch County

Storms near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heber City, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2006: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber City	1 killed, 1 hurt, $1,000	Two men were canoeing on Jordanelle Reservoir when thunderstorm outflow winds estimated at 45mph (39kts) capsized the canoe. The men were thrown into the 34 degree water about 25 feet from shore, but they were pushed out further by the wind as they hung onto the canoe. They both became hypothermic, and the 27-year-old man let go of the canoe and drowned. The other man was rescued and sent to the hospital, where he recovered.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber City	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60-70 mph (52-61 kts) blew through portions of Heber City, blowing down trees and power lines and taking shingles off roofs.
August 2004	Lightning	Heber City	$15,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber City	$1,000	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Heber City	-	Near Jordanelle Reservoir
August 2006	Hail	Heber City	-	at Jordanelle Reservior
September 2005	Hail	Heber City	-	Large hail at Strawberry reservoir
June 1996	Hail	Heber City	-	no account filed
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Heber City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wasatch 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
George Blackley House	4.2 miles	1985
Austin-Wherritt House	4.3 miles	1979
David Fisher House	4.4 miles	1980
Joseph S. Murdock House	4.5 miles	1987
Abram Hatch House	4.5 miles	1975
Clotworthy-McMillan House	4.5 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000414 in Record Group 79.
Wasatch County	All 38 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.