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One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Union Pacific Park City Branch Railroad Grade
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
The listing
- Address. RR grade parallel to I-80 from Echo to Park City, Echo, 84017
- When was it listed? April 1996
- Category. structure
- Census division. Coalville
- National Register reference number. 96000413 - 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
159 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Union Pacific Park City Branch Railroad Grade between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,086 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 45 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 27 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | POWERLINE |
| 8 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BUZZARD |
| 7 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SEMI SIDE |
| 3 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | RIVERSIDE COTTONWOOD |
| 22 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ROCKPORT RANCH |
| 2 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | OVERPASS |
| 19 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WANSHIP |
| 18 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BOBCAT SPRINGS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Union Pacific Park City Branch Railroad Grade: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big K | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Utelite Clay Pit and Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Utelite Clay Pit and Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wanship Dam Clay Locality | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Wanship Dam Clay Locality | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys No 22039 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 23018 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut State Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 22013 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut State Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 22016 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ut. Dep. of Hwys. No 22039 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Samuel P. Hoyt House | 5.0 miles | 1982 |
 | Annie Birch House | 5.5 miles | 1984 |
 | Kimball Stage Stop | 7.2 miles | 1971 |
 | John Boyden House | 7.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Thomas and Jane Beech House | 7.3 miles | 2001 |
 | Summit County Courthouse | 7.5 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 96000413 in Record Group 79. |
| Summit County | All 111 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.