Camp Horn Monument

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Camp Horn was a sub camp of the US Army, Desert Training Center in Riverside County, California. The main headquarters for the Desert Training Center was Camp Young, this is where General Patton's 3rd Armored Division was stationed.”
Wikipedia article Camp Horn, Arizona, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Yuma County · listed in 2003 · category: Object.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Approx 8 mi. N of Interstate 8, Dateland, 85347
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. object
Census division. Wellton
National Register reference number. 03000900 - 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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Camp Horn Monument between 1993 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
4 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.3 acres	Colorado River District	DATELAND
24 August 2020	Natural	3.0 acres	Colorado River District	VOODOO
25 July 1997	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Colorado River District	TABLE
2 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado River District	DATELAND
23 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125 acres	Colorado River District	WHITE WING
14 April 2006	Debris and open burning	128 acres	Colorado River District	WINDY
16 October 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	160 acres	Colorado River District	TURTLEBACK

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Camp Horn Monument: 10 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Geothermal	Unknown

Every working recorded in Yuma County

Storms near this property

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dateland, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2001: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 8 injuries. 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
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dateland	8 hurt	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Dateland	$27,000	Strong thunderstorm winds damaged a school, a storage building, and several porches and awnings. AC units and awnings at the school sustained $7,000 damage and residential areas sustained $20,000 total damage.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Dateland	-	Severe thunderstorm wind gusts blew down 16 power poles.
August 1997	Flash Flood	Dateland	-	Slow-moving thunderstorms pounded Dateland with a rainfall total of 3 inches. As a result, some side roads were barricaded due to high water.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dateland	-	Power lines were blown down.
August 1997	Hail	Dateland	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Dateland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yuma County

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 03000900 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yuma County	All 58 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.