Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“The Hanks' Dugouts are a series of pioneer dwellings in southern Utah, in what is now Capitol Reef National Park. The dugouts were constructed as temporary housing for the Ephraim K.”
Wikipedia article Hanks' Dugouts, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 18 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1999 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.99001095- 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
7 since 2000
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hanks' Dugouts
between 2000 and 2019, burning about 1 acre in total. 7 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
7
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Hanks' Dugouts: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Torrey, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 flash flood.
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.
A flood wave (flash flooding) was reported in Sulphur Creek at the Capitol Reef National Park western Boundary. Approximately 0.25 to 0.50 inches of rain fell to create the flood wave.
Capitol Reef National Park officials reported flash flooding in a dry wash leading into Sulphur Creek from upstream heavy rainfall. The water level on Sulphur Creek near the Visitor center rose 2 feet.
Capitol Reef National Park officials reported flash flooding on Sulphur Creek and the Fremont River, along with muddy conditions on Scenic Drive. The initial flood wave through Sulphur Creek contained black boulders.
Flash flooding was reported by the park rangers at Capitol Reef National Park. This flooding primarily occurred along the Scenic Drive, closing the Grand Wash and Capitol Gorge areas.
Flash flooding was reported in multiple locations across Capitol Reef National Park. Flooding occurred along Sulphur Creek, and water also flowed across the Scenic Drive, causing park officials to temporarily close the road.
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
4 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.
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.
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