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Photograph of Old National Park Service Housing Historic District
Photograph by National Park Service inventory, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

National Park Service Housing, Old, Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Old National Park Service Housing Historic District in Bryce Canyon National Park represents the first housing development within the park specifically designed to house National Park Service employees. Most of these units were intended for unmarried seasonal employees, and were small in scale.”

Wikipedia article Old National Park Service Housing Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon, 84764
  • When was it listed? April 1995
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Bryce Canyon National Park MPS
  • Census division. Tropic
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • Architect. National Park Service
  • National Register reference number. 95000424 - 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of National Park Service Housing, Old, Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 70 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
Natural70
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkDUMP
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkPARIA
6 September 1994Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkRAINY DAY
4 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMERYLS BNC
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkMERRILL
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkSUNRISE
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkBRYCE CR
26 September 2019Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestDAVES HOLLOW

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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 National Park Service Housing, Old, Historic District: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Airport Borrow Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Airport Borrow Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Airport Borrow Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Airport Borrow Pit No 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Airport Borrow Pit No 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Airport Borrow Pits #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Emery Valley Borrow Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Emory Valley Borrow Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Emory Valley Borrow Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Emory Valley Borrow Pits #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this property

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bryce Canyon, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011LightningBryce Canyon1 killedA 51-year-old German tourist in Bryce Canyon National Park was hiking with his family along the Rim Trail near Sunset Point, when an isolated thunderstorm moved into the area. Most of the family ran toward their car, but the man sought refuge under a large Ponderosa Pine. A bolt of lightning stuck the tree, with some of the energy being transferred to the man, and he died at the scene.
August 2000LightningBryce Canyon1 hurtA 47-year-old male British tourist was struck by lightning while standing under a tree a Bryce Canyon National Park. The man suffered head injuries and superficial burns. He was flown to LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City where he was in critical condition. He later recovered from his injuries.
September 2023Flash FloodBryce Canyon$1,000Bryce Canyon National Park Rangers reported rock slides and deep mud along the Navajo Loop trail as a result of heavy rain in the area. This resulted in damage to retaining walls along the trail, and as such, the temporary closure of the trail.
July 2021HailBryce Canyon-An observer in Bryce Canyon National Park reported hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindBryce Canyon-The Bryce Canyon RAWS reported a peak wind gust of 67 mph.

Every storm recorded in Garfield 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
Utah Parks Company Service Station0.1 miles1995
Administration Building, Old0.2 miles1995
Bryce Canyon Lodge Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.3 miles1995
Bryce Canyon Lodge and Deluxe Cabins0.3 miles1987
Loop D Comfort Station0.3 miles1995
Bryce Inn0.4 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000424 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield CountyAll 26 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.