Portal, 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 3 records

• Barfoot Lookout Complexlisted 1988
• Portal Ranger Stationlisted 1993
• Silver Peak Lookout Complexlisted 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.

• 1917 USGS Chiricahua quadrangle1:125000
• 1919 USGS Chiricahua quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1926 USGS Rodeo quadrangle1:62500
• 1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Portal quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
• 1987 USGS Portal quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Chiricahua Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Portal quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Portal between 1992 and 2019, burning about 608 acres in total. 14 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.

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:

• Galeyville
• Paradise

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Portal: 11 past producers, 6 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portal in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Cochise 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 9657. 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.

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.