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Sanpete County, Utah

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82historic places

—earliest paper

1850formed

28,437pop. 2020

23cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 82 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Ephraim, Manti, Mount Pleasant.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

73 of 82 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

82 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Andersen, Claus P., House	Ephraim	Building	1983
Andersen, Lars S., House	Ephraim	Building	1983
Anderson, James, House	Fairview	Building	1980
Anderson, Lewis and Clara, House	Manti	Building	1998
Anderson, Niels Ole, House	Ephraim	Building	1978
Arilsen, Ole, House	Mount Pleasant	Building	1980
Barentsen, Andrew, House	Fountain Green	Building	1983
Bessey, Anthonv W., House	Manti	Building	1980
Billings-Hougaard House	Manti	Building	1980
Candland, W.D., House	Mt. Pleasant	Building	2019
Casino Theatre	Gunnison	Building	1989
Centerfield School and Meetinghouse	Centerfield	Building	2000
Cox Family Big House Complex	Manti	Building	2020
Cox-Shoemaker-Parry House	Manti	Building	1982
Crawforth, Charles, Farmstead	Spring City	Building	1980
Dorius, John, Jr., House	Ephraim	Building	1985
Ephraim Carnegie Library	Ephraim	Building	1984
Ephraim Relief Society Granary	Ephraim	Building	2019
Ephraim Tithing Office-Bishop's Storehouse	Ephraim	Building	2020
Ephraim United Order Cooperative Building	Ephraim	Building	1973
Fairview Amusement Hall	Fairview	Building	2002
Fairview City Hall	Fairview	Building	1986
Fairview Tithing Office/Bishop's Storehouse	Fairview	Building	1985
Faux, Jabez, House And Barn	Moroni	Building	1976
Fountain Green Hydroelectric Plant Historic District	Fountain Green	District	1989
Great Basin Research Station Historic District	Ephraim	District	1996
Greaves-Deakin House	Ephraim	Building	1980
Hansen, Hans A., House	Ephraim	Building	1980
Hansen, Peter, House	Manti	Building	1983
Hjort, Niels P., House	Fairview	Building	1980
Jensen, Frederick C., House	Mount Pleasant	Building	1982
Jensen, Hans C., House	Ephraim	Building	1983
Jensen, Rasmus, House	Ephraim	Building	1983
Johnson, Robert, House	Manti	Building	1980
Johnson-Nielson House	Ephraim	Building	1982
Jolley, Francis Marion, House	Manti	Building	1980
Larsen, Oluf, House	Ephraim	Building	1983
Larsen-Noyes House	Ephraim	Building	1978
Lewellyn, John T., House	Wales	Building	1980
Madsen, David and Evinda, House	Ephraim	Building	2014
Manti Carnegie Library	Manti	Building	1984
Manti City Hall	Manti	Building	1985
Manti Motor Company Building	Manti	Building	2008
Manti National Guard Armory	Manti	Building	1986
Manti Presbyterian Church	Manti	Building	1980
Manti Temple	Manti	Building	1971
Metcalf, James and Caroline M., House	Gunnison	Building	1998
Moroni High School Mechanical Arts Building	Moroni	Building	1985
Moroni Opera House	Moroni	Building	1996
Mortensen-Nelson House	Moroni	Building	2003
Mount Pleasant Carnegie Library	Mount Pleasant	Building	1984
Mount Pleasant Commercial Historic District	Mount Pleasant	District	1979
Mount Pleasant High School Mechanical Arts Building	Mount Pleasant	Building	1985
Mount Pleasant National Guard Armory	Mount Pleasant	Building	1986
Neilson, N. S., House (Additional Documentation)	Mt. Pleasant	Building	1982
Nielsen, Jens, House	Ephraim	Building	1983
Nielson, John R., Cabin	Manti	Building	2004
Oberg-Metcalf House	Gunnison	Building	1997
Olsen House and Mortuary	Ephraim	Building	2022
Olsen, Hans Peter, House	Fountain Green	Building	1976
Ottesen, Hans, House	Manti	Building	1987
Patten, John, House	Manti	Building	1977
Pectol-Works House	Manti	Building	2019
Peterson, Canute, House	Ephraim	Building	1978
Poulsen-Hall House	Manti	Building	2011
Rasmussen, Morten, House	Mount Pleasant	Building	1977
Sanpete County Courthouse	Manti	Building	1985
Seeley, William Stuart, House	Mt. Pleasant	Building	1992
Seely, John H., House	Mount Pleasant	Building	1982
Shomaker, Ezra and Abigail, House	Manti	Building	2014
Snow Academy Building	Ephraim	Building	1987
Sorensen, Dykes, House	Ephriam	Building	1982
Sorensen, Fredrick Christian, House	Ephraim	Building	1980
Spring City School	Spring City	Building	1978
Staker, Alma, House	Mount Pleasant	Building	1979
Staker, James B., House	Mount Pleasant	Building	1980
Tuttle-Folsom House	Manti	Building	1977
US Post Office-Springville Main	Springville	Building	1989
Wales Co-operative Mercantile Institution	Wales	Building	2000
Wasatch Academy	Mount Pleasant	District	1978
Watkins-Tholman-Larsen Farmstead	Mt. Pleasant	Building	1996
Wheelock, Cyrus, House	Mount Pleasant	Building	1980

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sanpete was formed in 1850 (1850-01-31) from unknown / original county.

SANPETE created by the state of Deseret to cover the San Pete Valley.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Sanpete County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
365	3,815	11,557	16,313	17,505	16,063	13,891	11,053	14,620	22,763	28,437

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

23 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 23 of 23 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Axtell Cemetery	39.04681	-111.82757
Centerfield Cemetery	39.11857	-111.81797
Chester Cemetery	39.48246	-111.54851
Dover Cemetery	39.20728	-111.89612
Ephraim Park Cemetery	39.37162	-111.5874
Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery	39.3894	-111.58352
Fairview Lower Cemetery	39.63634	-111.45268
Fairview Upper Cemetery	39.63495	-111.4559
Fayette Cemetery	39.22329	-111.84658
Fountain Green Cemetery	39.63412	-111.63102
Freedom Cemetery	39.54373	-111.6523
Gunnison Cemetery	39.16718	-111.80519
Manti Cemetery	39.27634	-111.63352
Mayfield Cemetery	39.11273	-111.71852
Moroni City Cemetery	39.54107	-111.59324
Mount Pleasant City Cemetery	39.53357	-111.45351
Park Cemetery	39.37163	-111.58797
Spencer Cemetery	39.80419	-111.49462
Spring City Cemetery	39.48023	-111.51574
Spring City Pioneer Cemetery	39.48154	-111.49392
Sterling Cemetery	39.19635	-111.69908
Wales Cemetery	39.48246	-111.64407
Yorgason Family Cemetary	39.64078	-111.63586

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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