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Photograph of Echo School
Photograph by Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Echo School

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Echo Rd., in Echo, Utah is a historic two-room schoolhouse that was built in 1914 and used as a school into the 1940s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.”

Wikipedia article Echo School (Echo, Utah), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 111 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1914.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 3441 S. Echo Rd., Echo, 84033
  • When was it listed? August 1997
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Coalville
  • When was it built? 1914
  • National Register reference number. 97000805 - 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Echo School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,651 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use29
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Debris and open burning27
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony17
Fireworks9
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Other causes2

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands169 ECHO
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPJ FIRE
5 September 2014Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands84 RAIL
5 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRAIL
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNortheast AreaECHO DAM
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined586 acresNortheast AreaTERVELS
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAMS CANYON ASSIST
3 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWIRE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Echo School: 5 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Uranium. 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
Arthur ForkUraniumOccurrenceVein
Anderton Clay PitsClayProducer1913
Anderton MineClayProducer
Devil S Slide QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Devils Slide PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
South Echo Utah Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
South Echo Utah Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Highways Pit No. 22070Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut State Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 22055Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut. Dept of Hwys Pit No 22055Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working 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
Echo Post Office0.3 miles2003
Echo Church and School0.5 miles1989
Thomas L. Allen House4.9 miles1982
Boyden Block4.9 miles2009
Summit County Courthouse4.9 miles1978
John Boyden House5.1 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000805 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.