Lesley Morrell Line Cabin and Corral

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Leslie Morrell Line Cabin and Corral are located in the Cathedral Valley section of northern Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. The cabin was built in the 1920s on Lake Creek by Paul Christensen at his sawmill as a summer residence for Christensen and his family.”
Wikipedia article Lesley Morrell Line Cabin and Corral, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Morrell, Lesley, Line Cabin and Corral - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Confluence of Middle Desert Wash and Cathedral Valley, Torrey
When was it listed? September 1999
Category. building
Also known as. Capitol Reef National Park MPS
Census division. Hanksville
National Register reference number. 99001096 - 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lesley Morrell Line Cabin and Corral between 1994 and 2015, burning about 642 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	BAKER RANCH
27 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	STATE 51
6 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	JONES MESA
26 July 1996	Natural	630 acres	Fishlake National Forest	HENS PEAK
25 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	BAKERRANCH
19 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	BILLINGS PASS
17 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	ELKHORN
13 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	not named

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

14 since 1997

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1997	Flash Flood	Torrey	$5,000	no account filed
July 2025	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	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.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	A park ranger reported flash flooding along Sulphur Creek just outside of Capitol Reef National Park.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	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.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	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.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	Park rangers reported flash flooding along Sulphur Creek in Capitol Reef National Park.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	Park rangers at Capitol Reef National Park reported flash flooding on Sulphur Creek, with the flood reaching the Visitor Center at 225 pm MDT.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	Sulphur Creek in Capitol Reef National Park experienced flash flooding following heavy rainfall.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	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.
September 2012	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	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.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	Flash flooding occurred along Sulphur Creek in Capitol Reef National Park, impacting a section of State Route 24.
September 2007	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	Flash flooding occurred in Capitol Reef National Park. Grand Wash was flooded and the Scenic Drive was closed due to flooding.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	Flash Flood across parts of Capitol Reef NP. Roads closed including the Grand Wash and Scenic Highway
August 2003	Flash Flood	Torrey	-	Flash flood water over Highway 12 west of Torrey closed the road for a time.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Cathedral Valley Corral	0.9 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001096 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne County	All 18 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.
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.