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One of 38 National Register listings published here for Wasatch County · listed in 1995 · category: Building · built in 1898.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Midway Social Hall
Built in 1898. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 71 E. Main St., Midway, 84049
- When was it listed? August 1995
- Category. building
- Census division. Heber City West
- When was it built? 1898
- National Register reference number. 95000981 - 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
191 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Midway Social Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,387 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined | 61 |
| Debris and open burning | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Fireworks | 16 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SWEAT |
| 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 |
| 6 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | DEER CREEK RAINBOW BAY |
| 30 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MIDWAY 6TH SO. |
| 29 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LITTLE SPOT |
| 29 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Uintah and Ouray Agency | BWALLOW1 |
| 24 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HEBER CREEPER 6 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Midway Social Hall: 8 producers, 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ledge-Mayflower Mine | Copper, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Limestone Borrow Pit. | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Limestone | |
| Midway Hot Pot | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Midway Tufa Quarries | Limestone, High Calcium | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| Park Heber Tunnel | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Phosphate Hill Prospect | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | Collophane | |
| Thaynes Mine | Zinc, Lead | Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Big Hollow Crushed Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Quartzite | |
| Charleston Crushed Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Limestone, Quartzite | |
| Heber City Borrow Pit. #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this property
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $5,000 | Multiple trees were downed in Midway. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $1,000 | MPING relayed damage report of 1-inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off in Midway. |
| September 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Midway | - | A rope funnel cloud was spotted and photographed near Midway, Utah. The time listed is approximate. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Watkins-Coleman House | under 500 feet | 1971 |
 | George Bonner Jr. House | under 500 feet | 1986 |
 | George Bonner Sr. House | under 500 feet | 1986 |
 | William Bonner House | under 500 feet | 1986 |
 | John and Margaret Watkins House | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | William Coleman House | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95000981 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.