Orton-Malstrom House

Built in 1913 (bungalow). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 399 National Register listings published here for Salt Lake County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1913, bungalow.

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. Orton--Malstrom House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 9325 South 700 East, Sandy, 84094
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. building
Also known as. Sandy City MPS
Census division. Salt Lake City
When was it built? 1913
Architectural style. bungalow
National Register reference number. 97000640 - 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Orton-Malstrom House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 279 acres in total. 3 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	9
Natural	3
Fireworks	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BELLS RESERVOIR
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PRESERVE
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
3 August 2016	Fireworks	35 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	CORNER CANYON
18 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	150 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Orton-Malstrom House: 25 producers, 19 past producers, 14 occurrences. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Gold, 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
Blue Jay Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Cottonwood Clay Pits	Clay	Producer
Lower Bells Canyon Workings	Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence
Midvale Minerals Co	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic	Past Producer
New State Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Rocky Mouth Canyon Adit	Copper, Molybdenum, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Wastch-Utah Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Willow Creek Quartzite Quarry	Quartz	Past Producer	Quartz
Alix Prospect	Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Big Mitt and Blue Point Mine	Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1904

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
Benjamin and Jane Cook Farrer House	0.7 miles	1992
Charles M. and Fannie M. Allsop Anderson House	0.7 miles	1999
John A. Anderson House	0.7 miles	1992
Emma Olive Dobbs House	0.7 miles	1996
Michael Jensen House	0.7 miles	1999
John Thomas and Myrtle Bodell Ostler House	0.7 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000640 in Record Group 79.
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.