Utah Parks Company Service Station

Built in 1947. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Utah Parks Company Service Station in Bryce Canyon National Park was built in 1947 to serve automobile-borne visitors to the park. The service station was designed for the Utah Parks Company by architect Ambrose Spence in a style that was sympathetic to the prevailing National Park Service Rustic style, but was much simpler and more modern in character.”
Wikipedia article Utah Parks Company Service Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1947.

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 as contributing to 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
When was it built? 1947
National Register reference number. 95000426 - 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Utah Parks Company Service Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 72 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
Natural	72
Recreation and ceremony	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
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
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Bryce Canyon National Park	DUMP
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Bryce Canyon National Park	PARIA
6 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Bryce Canyon National Park	RAINY DAY
4 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	MERYLS BNC
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	BULLDOG HO
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Bryce Canyon National Park	MERRILL
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Bryce Canyon National Park	SUNRISE
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Bryce Canyon National Park	BRYCE CR

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 Utah Parks Company Service Station: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Airport Borrow Pit #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Airport Borrow Pit #3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Airport Borrow Pit No 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Airport Borrow Pit No 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Airport Borrow Pit No 4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Airport Borrow Pits #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Emory Valley Borrow Pit No 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Emory Valley Borrow Pits #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 09022	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 09027	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2011	Lightning	Bryce Canyon	1 killed	A 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 2000	Lightning	Bryce Canyon	1 hurt	A 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 2023	Flash Flood	Bryce Canyon	$1,000	Bryce 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 2021	Hail	Bryce Canyon	-	An observer in Bryce Canyon National Park reported hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bryce 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
National Park Service Housing, Old, Historic District	0.1 miles	1995
Bryce Canyon Lodge Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	1995
Administration Building, Old	0.2 miles	1995
Bryce Canyon Lodge and Deluxe Cabins	0.2 miles	1987
Loop D Comfort Station	0.4 miles	1995
Bryce Inn	0.5 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95000426 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield County	All 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.