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Photograph of Washakie LDS Ward Chapel
Photograph by Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Washakie LDS Ward Chapel

Built in 1939 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Washakie LDS Ward Chapel is a historic one-story building in Washakie, Utah. It was built in 1939 for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and designed in the Colonial Revival style by architect Edward O.”

Wikipedia article Washakie LDS Ward Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Box Elder County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1939, Colonial Revival architecture.

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. Along Samaria Lake Canal, Washakie, 84331
  • When was it listed? June 1998
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Howell-Snowville
  • When was it built? 1939
  • Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 98000641 - 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Washakie LDS Ward Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,082 acres in total. 30 started naturally. None 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
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2002Natural200 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBROAD CANYON
3 September 2008Debris and open burning100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWASAKIE
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWASHAKIE
20 September 2009Natural21 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestNIEL
2 September 2003Natural26 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJOHNSON CANYON
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBear River AreaWESTERN METAL
1 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPORTAGE CANYON ENTRANCE
9 August 1998Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestELGROVE SPRING

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Washakie LDS Ward Chapel: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Briggs & Box Elder CountySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Briggs and Box Elder Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J. Allen #02045 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
J.Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Limekiln Knoll GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Limekiln Knoll GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
N. Nish & Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
N.Nish & Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R. Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
R.Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Plymouth School6.0 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000641 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Box Elder CountyAll 45 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.