Historic Sites, Utah
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- American Fork Historic District — Historic · Utah County, UT
American Fork Historic District is a historic district in Utah County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, recognized for signifi…
- Black Rock Site — Historic · Tooele County, UT
Black Rock Site is a historic site in Tooele County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for significance in entertain…
- Bluff Historic District — Historic · San Juan County, UT
Bluff Historic District is a historic district in San Juan County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, recognized for significanc…
- Bountiful Historic District — Historic · Davis County, UT
Bountiful Historic District is a historic district in Davis County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, recognized for significan…
- Brigham City Historic District — Historic · Box Elder County, UT
Brigham City Historic District is a historic district in Box Elder County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023, recognized for sig…
- Bullion Canyon Miners Park — Historic · Piute County, UT
Self-guided Forest Service interpretive stop in the “Canyon of Gold” above Marysvale, with mining equipment displays, a short historical trail, and access to…
- Capitol Hill Historic District — Historic · Salt Lake County, UT
Capitol Hill Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized for sig…
- Cedar City Historic District — Historic · Iron County, UT
Cedar City Historic District is a historic district in Iron County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, recognized for significan…
- Copperton Historic District — Historic · Salt Lake County, UT
Copperton Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, recognized for signif…
- Cove Fort — Historic · Millard County, UT
Restored 1867 volcanic-rock fort at the I-15 / I-70 junction, built for Brigham Young by Ira Hinckley as a Mormon Road way station, stage stop, and Deseret T…
- Dance Hall Rock — Historic · Kane County, UT
A large Navajo Sandstone amphitheater on the Hole-in-the-Rock Road where 1879 San Juan Expedition pioneers held dances and meetings while waiting for the rou…
- Dewey — Historic · Grand County, UT
Colorado River crossing and thin settlement at Dewey Bridge country northeast of Moab, where a historic suspension span once linked the river road. Field pin…
- Emigration Canyon — Historic · Salt Lake County, UT
Emigration Canyon is a historic site in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in expl…
- Escalante Historic District — Historic · Garfield County, UT
Escalante Historic District is a historic district in Garfield County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, recognized for signifi…
- Eureka Historic District UT — Historic · Juab County, UT
Eureka Historic District is a historic district in Juab County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, recognized for significance i…
- Farmington Main Street Historic District — Historic · Davis County, UT
National Register historic district (listed 2011, NRIS 11000756) along Farmington’s Main Street corridor — roughly 200 South to 600 North — with 66 contribut…
- Fielding Garr Ranch — Historic · Davis County, UT
Oldest continuously operated ranch in Utah, founded 1848 on the southeast shore of Antelope Island and listed on the National Register. Adobe ranch house, ba…
- Fiftymile Spring — Historic · Kane County, UT
Named spring and Hole-in-the-Rock Trail camp on Hole-in-the-Rock Road in Grand Staircase–Escalante / Glen Canyon country. After Forty Mile Spring, Mormon pio…
- Flaming Gorge Dam — Historic · Daggett County, UT
502-foot Bureau of Reclamation thin-arch dam on the Green River (completed 1964) that created Flaming Gorge Reservoir as part of the Colorado River Storage P…
- Forest Dale Historic District — Historic · Salt Lake County, UT
Forest Dale Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, recognized for sign…
- Fort Deseret — Historic · Millard County, UT
Adobe fort built in 1865–66 during Utah’s Black Hawk War to protect Deseret-area settlers. Remains of the ~550-foot-square fort with original 10-foot mud wal…
- Fremont Indian State Park — Historic · Sevier County, UT
Utah State Park and museum in Clear Creek Canyon (I-70 Exit 17) created to preserve Fremont-culture archaeology and rock art exposed during interstate constr…
- Golden Spike National Historical Park — Historic · Box Elder County, UT
National Park Service unit at Promontory Summit marking the 10 May 1869 completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Restored grade, replica Jupiter an…
- Hermit's Cabin (Marjum Canyon) — Historic · Millard County, UT
BLM-managed rock house built by World War I veteran Bob Stinson into a limestone alcove in Marjum Canyon, House Range. Stinson walled the cave mouth with loc…
- Hite — Historic · Garfield County, UT
Historic Colorado River ferry and supply settlement at the mouth of White Canyon, later inundated as Lake Powell rose. Cass Hite’s river landing and the mid-…
- Hole-in-the-Rock — Historic · San Juan County, UT
Site where the 1879 San Juan Expedition lowered wagons through a cleft in the Glen Canyon rim to the Colorado River. Rough Hole-in-the-Rock Road reaches the …
- Hovenweep National Monument (Square Tower Group) — Historic · San Juan County, UT
NPS unit preserving Ancestral Puebloan masonry towers and room blocks (c. 1200–1300 CE) around Little Ruin Canyon on Cajon Mesa. Square Tower Group is the mo…
- Hurricane Canal — Historic · Washington County, UT
Hurricane Canal is a historic structure in Washington County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, recognized for significance in …
- John Jarvie Historic Ranch — Historic · Daggett County, UT
BLM-managed historic ranch district on the Green River in Browns Park—1880s store and ranch of Scotsman John Jarvie, a supply point for travelers and outlaw-…
- John Wesley Powell River History Museum — Historic · Emery County, UT
Riverside museum in Green River interpreting John Wesley Powell’s 1869 and 1871 Colorado River expeditions and the river history of the Green and Colorado. I…
- Johnson Canyon Gunsmoke Movie Set — Historic · Kane County, UT
Roadside remnant of the long-running Johnson Canyon western film ranch outside Kanab, used for outdoor sequences of Gunsmoke and other Hollywood westerns. Di…
- Moki Dugway — Historic · San Juan County, UT
Three miles of steep unpaved switchbacks on Utah Highway 261 carved into the face of Cedar Mesa, dropping about 1,100–1,200 ft at roughly 11% grade above Val…
- Morgan Historic District — Historic · Morgan County, UT
Morgan Historic District is a historic district in Morgan County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022, recognized for significance…
- Newton Reservoir — Historic · Cache County, UT
Newton Reservoir is a historic site in Cache County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for significance in agricultu…
- Oak Creek Historic District — Historic · Washington County, UT
Oak Creek Historic District is a historic district in Washington County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, recognized for signi…
- Ophir — Historic · Tooele County, UT
Silver–lead–zinc mining canyon town in the Oquirrh Mountains of Tooele County, founded about 1870 and named for the biblical source of Solomon’s gold. Peak c…
- Panguitch Historic District — Historic · Garfield County, UT
Panguitch Historic District is a historic district in Garfield County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, recognized for signifi…
- Payson Historic District — Historic · Utah County, UT
Payson Historic District is a historic district in Utah County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, recognized for significance i…
- Pleasant Grove Historic District — Historic · Utah County, UT
Pleasant Grove Historic District is a historic district in Utah County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, recognized for signif…
- Providence Historic District — Historic · Cache County, UT
Providence Historic District is a historic district in Cache County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, recognized for significa…
- Riverton Historic District — Historic · Salt Lake County, UT
Riverton Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, recognized for signifi…
- Simpson Springs — Historic · Tooele County, UT
Key West Desert watering hole and Pony Express / Overland Stage station site on the Pony Express National Historic Trail. Named for Capt. James H. Simpson’s …
- Soldier Summit — Historic · Wasatch County, UT
High railroad summit settlement on the divide between Utah Valley and Price Canyon—once a helper-engine, section-crew, and traveler stop on the Rio Grande ma…
- Spiral Jetty — Historic · Box Elder County, UT
Robert Smithson’s 1970 land-art earthwork on Rozel Point: a 1,500-foot coil of basalt and earth winding into Great Salt Lake’s north arm. Stewarded by Dia Ar…
- Springville Historic District — Historic · Utah County, UT
Springville Historic District is a historic district in Utah County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, recognized for significa…
- Sun Tunnels — Historic · Box Elder County, UT
Nancy Holt’s 1973–76 Land Art installation: four large concrete tunnels in an open X on the Great Basin Desert floor SE of Lucin, aligned to the solstice sun…
- Swett Ranch — Historic · Daggett County, UT
USFS-interpreted 1909–1960s homestead on the Greendale benches of Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area (Ashley National Forest). Oscar and Emma Swett ran a…
- Temple Mountain Mining District — Historic · Emery County, UT
Cold War–era uranium mining townsite and district on the southeast flank of the San Rafael Swell. BLM Temple Mountain Townsite campground sits at Temple Wash…
- Thompson Springs — Historic · Grand County, UT
Railroad and highway service town east of Green River on the Book Cliffs front, long a staging point for the Sego Canyon coal branch and later I-70 travelers…
- Topaz Internment Camp — Historic · Millard County, UT
National Historic Landmark site of the WWII Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz), where over 11,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated 1942–1945 on the S…
- Tremonton Historic District — Historic · Box Elder County, UT
Tremonton Historic District is a historic district in Box Elder County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for signif…
- Wells Historic District — Historic · Salt Lake County, UT
Wells Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010, recognized for significan…
- Westmoreland Place Historic District — Historic · Salt Lake County, UT
Westmoreland Place Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011, recognized f…
- Westwood Village Historic District — Historic · Salt Lake County, UT
Westwood Village Historic District is a historic district in Salt Lake County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024, recognized for…
- Willard Historic District — Historic · Box Elder County, UT
Willard Historic District is a historic district in Box Elder County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, recognized for signific…
- Zion Lodge Historic District — Historic · Washington County, UT
Zion Lodge Historic District is a historic district in Washington County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, recognized for sign…