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Photograph of Glenwood Cemetery
Photograph by Ntsimp, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glenwood Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Glenwood Cemetery is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) cemetery in Park City, Utah. The site was first established in 1885 as a pioneer cemetery by silver miners.”

Wikipedia article Glenwood Cemetery (Park City, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1996 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Silver King Dr., approximately .5 mi. N of Park City Ski Resort, Park City, 84060
  • When was it listed? May 1996
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Park City
  • National Register reference number. 96000436 - 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 584 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony11
Debris and open burning10
Natural9
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks3

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
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLD RANCH
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestREDMAN
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRICHARDSON FLATE
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRANCH MORNING
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGUARDSMAN PASS-CLOUD RIM
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBONANZA-CLOUD RIM
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDEER VALLEY
5 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGUARDSMAN PASS

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 211 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 211 workings within 5 miles of Glenwood Cemetery: 141 past producers, 35 occurrences, 28 producers, 7 prospects. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
American Flag ShaftSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Manganese, IronPast ProducerGalena, Tetrahedrite
American Flag ShaftGold, Silver, Manganese, Lead, Copper, IronPast Producer
American Flag Shaft No. 2Silver, Lead, Gold, Iron, Manganese, CopperPast ProducerGalena, Tetrahedrite
American TunnelCopper, Lead, ZincPast ProducerVein
Anchor Tunnel ProtalGold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Balmount ShaftZinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer1907, 1925, 1952
California MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Antimony, SulfurPast Producer
Central Wasatch Range GroupPhosphorus-Phosphates, UraniumPast ProducerSurface, Underground
Comstock MineLead, Copper, Iron, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Constellation ShaftGold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Park City, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPark City-The PacifiCorp Aerie mesonet station near Park City measured an initial wind gust of 60 mph at 3:00 pm MST, followed by a peak wind gust of 65 mph at 3:10 pm MST, as a result of strong outflow from nearby convection.
May 2021HailPark City-Penny-sized hail fell in Park City.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPark City-The Mount Baldy sensor at Deer Valley recorded a wind gust of 59 mph.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPark City-Dry Microburst

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Park City Miner's Hospital0.3 miles1978
David F. and Elizabeth Condon House0.5 miles1984
Park City High School0.5 miles2016
Park City High School Mechanical Arts Building0.5 miles1996
Peter Clark House0.6 miles1984
Peter Farthelos House0.6 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000436 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Summit CountyAll 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.
  • 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.