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Photograph of Moroni Opera House
Photograph by Ntsimp, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Moroni Opera House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Main St. in Moroni, Utah, was built in 1890-91. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”

Wikipedia article Moroni Opera House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Sanpete County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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. Jct. of UT 132 and W. Main St., Moroni, 84646
  • When was it listed? May 1996
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Mount Pleasant-Moroni
  • National Register reference number. 96000590 - 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

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Moroni Opera House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 672 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined16
Natural15
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWALES RESERVOIR
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJUNCTION SPOT
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPIG FIRE
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremony515 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBLUE HILLS
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral AreaJERUSALEM
12 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPETES CANYON
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHAPMAN FIRE
30 August 2010Debris and open burning1.7 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROLAND

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Moroni Opera House: 25 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone, Dimension. 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
Moroni North Sandstone ProspectsStone, DimensionPast ProducerQuartz
Wales Tufa DepositCalciumOccurrence
Bruno's Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chester - Highway 89 Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Chester Ponds Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSandstone
Chester Ponds Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chester-Highway 89 Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moroni Canal Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Ditch Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit #20023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this property

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moroni, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2009: 1 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
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMoroni$10,000Thunderstorm/microburst winds destroyed roof on a turkey hatchery.
September 2009HailMoroni-Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported near Moroni.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Jabez Faux House And Barn0.5 miles1976
Moroni High School Mechanical Arts Building0.5 miles1985
Mortensen-Nelson House0.6 miles2003
Wales Co-operative Mercantile Institution3.5 miles2000
John T. Lewellyn House3.6 miles1980
Spring City School6.1 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96000590 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sanpete CountyAll 83 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.