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One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sweetwater County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Morris House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 6 West 2nd North St., Green River, 82935
- When was it listed? July 2023
- Category. building
- Census division. Green River North
- National Register reference number. 100009187 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
68 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Morris House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 488 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 50 acres | Sweetwater County | MM76 |
| 28 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rock Springs Field Office | RAILROAD |
| 19 September 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Sweetwater County | MCKINNON FIRE |
| 14 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Rock Springs Field Office | DUALLY |
| 11 September 2009 | Fireworks | 2.5 acres | Rock Springs Field Office | CEMETERY |
| 4 August 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Sweetwater County | MM1 HARBORLITE |
| 3 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Sweetwater County | MM67 |
| 25 August 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Sweetwater County | SHOOTING RANGE |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Morris House: 6 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sodium, Sodium Carbonate, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Alkali Co., Butler Well No. 1 | Sodium | Prospect | Trona | |
| State Highway Dept | Silica | Producer | ||
| Western Alkali Company wells | Sodium Carbonate | Past Producer | Trona | |
| Acme Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Green River Pit & Plant Layos | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State Highway Department Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State Highway Dept | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State Highway Dept | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this property
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green River, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Green River | $250,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | $3,000 | Several power poles were reported down west-northwest of Green River toward State Highway 372. The wind gusts were associated with weak convection and not a thunderstorm. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | - | The wind sensor along Interstate 80 in Green River reported wind gusts to 59 mph. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Green River | - | There were numerous reports of one inch diameter hail across Green River and Rock Springs. Trees were stripped of leaves and the hail accumulated on the ground to a depth of a couple of inches. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Green River | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Green River | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Green River | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Green River | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Green River | - | no account filed |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Sweetwater Brewery | 0.1 miles | 1982 |
 | 130 E Flaming Gorge Way | 0.2 miles | 2009 |
| Green River Downtown Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2009 |
 | Expedition Island | 0.5 miles | 1968 |
 | US Post Office-Green River | 1.3 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009187 in Record Group 79. |
| Sweetwater County | All 28 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.