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One of 26 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1914.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Oak Creek Dam
Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Oak Creek, N of N. Coleman Canyon, Torrey, 84775
- When was it listed? September 1999
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Capitol Reef National Park MPS
- Census division. East Garfield
- When was it built? 1914
- National Register reference number. 99001091 - 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
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Oak Creek Dam between 1997 and 2011, burning about 1 acre in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | COLEMAN CANYON |
| 14 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MILEPOST 81 |
| 7 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | TANTLAS |
| 27 July 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | OAK RIM |
| 20 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | DRY BENCH |
| 18 June 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BUCKHORN EAST |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Oak Creek Dam: 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 5 producers, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Copper, Uranium, Uranium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont Assoc. #1 | Uranium, Copper | Producer | ||
| North Coleman Canyon | Copper, Uranium | Prospect | Underground | |
| Sheets Gulch Mine | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Sheets Gulch Mine | Vanadium, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Waterpocket Fold Gypsum | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Alabaster | |
| Waterpocket Fold Gypsum | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | ||
| Bear Canyon | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Bear Canyon | Uranium | Unknown | Underground | |
| Dirty Shame #7 | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Dirty Shame 7 | Uranium | Prospect | Underground |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 99001091 in Record Group 79. |
| Garfield County | All 26 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.