John Grix Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Grix, John, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. .25 mi W of UT 150, approximately 20 mi. NE of Kamas, Kamas, 84036
When was it listed? March 1997
Category. building
Census division. Kamas
National Register reference number. 97000226 - 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

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of John Grix Cabin between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,524 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	42
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	4
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 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	CRYSTAL
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	SLATE GORGE
4 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LOST LAKE
28 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	LILLY LAKE
27 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	UPPER PROVO BRIDGE
2 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MURDOCK FLATS
16 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	BROADHEAD LAKE
15 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MIRROR LAKE 24

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of John Grix Cabin: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit In Sec 20	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit In Sec. 20	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept of Hwy Gravel Pit 22060	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. of Hwys Pit 22062	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept of Highways Pit 22062	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kamas, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Kamas	1 killed	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Kamas	-	Quarter-sized hail was reported in Kamas.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Kamas	-	Powerlines and poles blown down by wind

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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	John Maycock Cabin	0.1 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000226 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.
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.