John and Mary Mattson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The John and Mary Mattson House is a historic house within the Sandy Historic District in Sandy, Utah, United States, that is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article John and Mary Mattson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake 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.
Listed as. Mattson, John and Mary, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 239 E. Main St., Sandy, 84070
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. building
Also known as. Sandy City MPS
Census division. Salt Lake City
National Register reference number. 96000886 - 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of John and Mary Mattson House between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TONYA
1 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	QUAIL HOLLOW
6 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SIENNA
31 August 2020	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BINGHAM ASSIST
12 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	UNION ASSIST
7 June 1997	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MURDOCK
29 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	RIVER
21 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	963 W MOGUL PEAK RD

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of John and Mary Mattson House: 24 producers, 14 past producers, 9 occurrences. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Gold, Copper. 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
All Minerals Mill	Barium-Barite	Producer
Big Mitt and Blue Point Mine	Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1904
Blue Jay Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Cottonwood Clay Pits	Clay	Producer
Midvale Minerals Co	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer
New State Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Willow Creek Quartzite Quarry	Quartz	Past Producer	Quartz
Dipper Mine	Gold	Past Producer	1925, 1946
Josephine Tunnel Prospect	Gold	Occurrence	Underground
A&L Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake 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
Sandy Historic District	under 500 feet	2007
Sandy City Bank	under 500 feet	1997
Sandy LDS Stake Recreational Hall	0.1 miles	2000
Bateman Agriculture and Development Company	0.1 miles	1996
Sandy Co-Op Block	0.1 miles	1992
Frederick C. and Anna Anderson House	0.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000886 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Salt Lake County	All 399 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.