American Fork Historic District

Built in 1949 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The American Fork Historic District is a 50-acre (20 ha) historic district in 1850-founded American Fork, Utah, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.”
Wikipedia article American Fork Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 183 National Register listings published here for Utah County · listed in 1998 · category: District · built in 1949, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly along 100 S, from 300 W to 200 E, American Fork, 84003
When was it listed? December 1998
Category. district
Census division. American Fork-Pleasant Grove
When was it built? 1949
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 98001447 - 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

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of American Fork Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,025 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 12 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	74
Debris and open burning	19
Arson/incendiarism	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Fireworks	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Firearms and explosives use	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 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BUCKWALTER
6 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SHIP FIRE
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	MAHOGANY
5 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ILLEGAL BURN
29 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	BUCKWALTER #2
28 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SOLO # 3
27 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	COWBOY
27 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	ILLEGAL BURN

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of American Fork Historic District: 22 producers, 20 past producers, 6 occurrences. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Brick Clay. 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
Mahogany Mtn. Prospect	Calcium	Occurrence	Replacement
Wadley Pit	Brick Clay	Producer	Surface
Mcfarland Deposit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Wadley Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Ellis Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Surface
Ellis Mcfarland and Smith Pits	Clay	Producer
Ellis, Mcfarland & Smith Pits	Clay	Occurrence
Mcfarland Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Surface
Smith Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Wadley Deposit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names American Fork, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 1998	Hail	American Fork	$300,000	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	American Fork	$25,000	no account filed
September 2013	Tornado (EF0)	American Fork	$10,000	A small tornado was spotted and recorded by a member of the public. The tornado removed a metal roof from a barn, and did minor damage to trees and other outbuildings in the area.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	American Fork	$1,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	American Fork	-	The American Fork Marina mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	American Fork	-	The American Fork Marina mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 58 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	American Fork	-	The sensor at American Fork Marina recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
August 2010	Hail	American Fork	-	Hail stones ranging in size from 0.75 inches to 1 inch in diameter were reported near Highland.
August 1997	Hail	American Fork	-	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
American Fork Second Ward Meetinghouse	0.1 miles	1992
American Fork City Hall	0.1 miles	1994
Bank of American Fork	0.2 miles	1993
Veterans Memorial Building	0.2 miles	1994
Harrington Elementary School	0.2 miles	1993
American Fork Presbyterian Church	0.3 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001447 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.