Lars and Christina Olsen House

Built in 1885 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Lars and Christina Olsen House is a historic residence in southeastern Orem, Utah, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article Lars and Christina Olsen House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1885, Neoclassical 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Olsen, Lars and Christina, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 417 S. 800 E., Orem, 84097
When was it listed? June 1998
Category. building
Also known as. Orem, Utah MPS
Census division. Provo-Orem
When was it built? 1885
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 98000669 - 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Lars and Christina Olsen House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,806 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined	52
Arson/incendiarism	31
Natural	28
Recreation and ceremony	25
Debris and open burning	13
Fireworks	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
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
8 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CASCADE FIRE
7 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	STEAK KNIFE
7 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	Y-MOUNTAIN #2
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	DRY CANYON 2
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	HOPE
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BMT
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HARVEY'S
5 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	EAST LAWN

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Lars and Christina Olsen House: 13 past producers, 11 producers, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Lead, Silver, Lead. 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
Buckley Mine	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1902, 1917
Monarch	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Replacement
Monarch Mine	Zinc, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Squaw Peak	Lead	Producer
Stubbs Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Pole Canyon Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence	Surface
Pole Canyon Clay Deposit	Clay	Past Producer
Provo Brick & Tile Co.	Clay	Producer
Stubb's Pit	Clay	Occurrence
Stubbs Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Surface

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orem, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 1998	Heavy Rain	Orem	$260,000	no account filed
June 1998	Lightning	Orem	$50,000	no account filed
September 1997	Lightning	Orem	$10,000	no account filed
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Orem	$5,000	no account filed
May 2000	Lightning	Orem	$1,500	Lightning struck a church in Orem, causing about $1,500 damage.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Orem	-	A carport partially collapsed at an apartment complex.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Orem	-	Powerlines down in downtown in Orem. Wind report from AWS
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Orem	-	Spotters in Orem estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 50-60 mph (43-52 kts). Some minor tree damage was reported.
April 2000	Hail	Orem	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped 3/4 inch hail in West Orem.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Orem	-	A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 69mph (60kts) in West Orem.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Orem	-	Thunderstorms developed over the eastern portions of the Salt Lake and Provo valleys. One inch hail was reported at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Orem	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Orem	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Utah 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
Alexander and Nellie P. Cordner House	0.2 miles	1998
Cordner-Calder House	0.4 miles	1998
Loveless House	0.5 miles	2010
John S. and Izola Lewis House	0.5 miles	1998
Carter-Terry-Call House	0.5 miles	1998
William James and Edna Cordner House	0.6 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000669 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Utah County	All 183 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.