Big Springs, Arizona

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

• Big Springs Lookout Towerlisted 1988
• Big Springs Ranger Stationlisted 1993
• Brow Monumentlisted 1987
• Dry Park Lookout Cabin and Storage Shedslisted 1988

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1886 USGS Kaibab quadrangle1:250000, 9 printings
• 1953 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Big Springs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Big Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Big Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82,973 acres in total. 155 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ryan
• Allan Lake Landing
• Coyote Basin Ranch
• Happy Jack
• Pumpkin Center

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.