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One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lower Cibecue Lutheran Mission
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Lower Cibecue, White Mountain Apache, 85911
- When was it listed? March 2002
- Category. building
- Census division. Fort Apache
- National Register reference number. 02000126 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
208 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Lower Cibecue Lutheran Mission between 1992 and 2020, burning about 230 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 48 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 54 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Natural | 40 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | BLACK HILL |
| 28 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | not named |
| 23 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | RODEO GRD. |
| 16 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | NORTH CBQ |
| 14 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | NORTH ENDFIELD |
| 8 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | CIBECUE |
| 5 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | LIZARD |
| 4 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | CEMENT CHALK |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000126 in Record Group 79. |
| Navajo County | All 46 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.