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One of 100 National Register listings published here for Pinal County · listed in 2002 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Picacho Pass Skirmish Site-Overland Mail Co. Stage Station at Picacho Pass
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Listed as. Picacho Pass Skirmish Site--Overland Mail Co. Stage Station at Picacho Pass - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1 mi. NW of I-10, Interchange #219, Picacho, 85141
- When was it listed? November 2002
- Category. site
- Census division. Florence
- National Register reference number. 02001384 - 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
191 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Picacho Pass Skirmish Site-Overland Mail Co. Stage Station at Picacho Pass between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,091 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 |
| Smoking | 33 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 28 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | SUNSET |
| 28 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 21 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 20 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 15 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | RED ROCK ROAD |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Picacho Pass Skirmish Site-Overland Mail Co. Stage Station at Picacho Pass: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Salt, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibson Claims | Copper, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Green Monster Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| Picacho Group | Copper, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Salt | Prospect | ||
| Picacho Group | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gold Bell Mine | Copper | Producer | Vein | |
| Unnamed Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| Unnamed Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Malachite | |
| Unnamed Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Vein |
Storms near this property
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Picacho, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Picacho | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged 6 warehouses at the cotton-storage facility STS Land Holding in Eloy. Four warehouses were listed as a 30 to 50 percent loss. The other 2 buildings were still marginally usable. The warehouses, covered in tin, were mostly empty at the time. A few minutes later, 39 out of 107 cars on a Union Pacific train were derailed near the Interstate 10 Picacho exit. The freight containers were empty at the time. No one was injured. Extensive damage to the tracks also resulted causing the rail line to remain out of service until repairs were completed, three days later. |
| October 2025 | Flash Flood | Picacho | $500 | Webcam shows water over bankfull at the McClellan Wash at the Central Arizona Project Wash. |
| October 2022 | Hail | Picacho | - | no account filed |
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 02001384 in Record Group 79. |
| Pinal County | All 100 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.
- 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.