Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“The Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School, which has also been known as the Truxton Canyon Indian School and as the Valentine Indian School, is a historic schoolhouse that was built in 1903. It was built using Colonial Revival architecture as a work of the Office of Indian Affairs, and was expanded, compatibly with the Colonial Revival style, in 1929.”
Wikipedia article Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Mohave County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03001197- 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
23 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 418 acres in total. 7 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
8
Natural
7
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Debris and open burning
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
17 September 2008
Natural
under an acre
Colorado River District
BIRTHDAY
1 August 1992
Natural
6.5 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
6 July 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
HACKBERRY
6 July 2015
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Colorado River District
HACKBERRY ASSIST
25 July 1997
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Phoenix District Office
KROISER
22 July 1993
Recreation and ceremony
1.5 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Schoolhouse at Truxton Canyon Training School: 6 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Valentine, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs reported flooding between Truxton and Valentine with Valentine wash running quite full. The cemetery road in Valentine was flooded but no major damage was observed.
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.
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.
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