Pryor Miller House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Gila County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Miller, Pryor, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3800 AZ 87, Pine, 85544
When was it listed? March 2004
Category. building
Census division. Payson
National Register reference number. 04000146 - 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

332 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 332 fires within 5 miles of Pryor Miller House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,276 acres in total. 195 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
Natural	195
Recreation and ceremony	66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	SLED
7 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	not named
4 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	FOSSIL
3 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	LATER
3 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	LATE
29 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Coconino National Forest	RESERVE
27 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pine-Strawberry Fire District	18544
27 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	FOUR

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pryor Miller House: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Molybdenum, Nickel, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Florence Ceramics	Kaolin	Past Producer
Gould Flagstone	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Little Nickel Claim	Molybdenum, Nickel	Prospect
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gila County

Storms near this property

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 flash flood, 10 hail, 7 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2025	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Public reported a minor debris flow in the gully crossing Control Road (FS 64) after heavy rain fell on the West Fire scar.
September 2025	Hail	Pine	-	Public reported hail up to the size of quarters in Pine.
September 2025	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Public reported a rapid 4 foot water rise in Pine Creek at Tonto Natural Bridge State Park.
September 2025	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Public reported water flowing over Fire Control Road in at least 8 spots west of Geronimo Estates.
September 2025	Flash Flood	Pine	-	An mPING report was submitted of Sycamore Creek overflowing across Fire Control Road (Nf-64) near Pine.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees approximately a foot in diameter along Highway 87 in and around Pine.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Pine Creek was flowing around 3 feet deep through Pine. Pinewood Tavern at Highway 87 and Hardscrabble Mesa Road was closed due to flooding.
August 2024	Hail	Pine	-	Quarter sized hail (1.00 inch diameter) was reported 6 miles southeast of Pine.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Tonto Natural Bridge State Park posted pictures of Pine Creek rising 4 feet between 5:47 PM and 5:52 PM.
December 2021	Heavy Rain	Pine	-	Heavy rain fell across northern Gila County. Rainfall amounts ranged from over an inch and a half at Payson to 2.80 inches just south of Washington Park.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Pine	-	A flash flood was reported over Highway 87 between Pine and Payson. Water was over the road with almost one lane covered. A road in East Verde Estates neighborhood flooded.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Webber Creek rose 4 to 5 feet and had a with of 10 feet due to the heavy rain.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Pine	-	A thunderstorm produced 1.50 inches of rain in 60 minutes.
July 2016	Heavy Rain	Pine	-	The visibility was less than 1/4 mile on Highway 87 near mile post 260. A co-op observer in Payson measured 0.98 inches of rain by 400 PM with rain continuing. An observer in Pine reported 4/5 inch diameter hail and that the washes were running full.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Pine	-	A thunderstorm produced 0.57 inches of rain in just 20 minutes in Pine.
January 2013	Heavy Rain	Pine	-	Heavy rain fell across Northern Gila County. Some of the rainfall amounts (in inches) include: Tonto Creek Fish Hatchery 4.97, Red Lake 3.22, Pleasant Valley 2.36, and Payson Airport 2.13.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused Pine Creek to overflow Bradshaw Road making it impassible.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Pine	-	Thunderstorms produced 3 inches of rain in just over three hours in Pine.
December 2008	Heavy Rain	Pine	-	Heavy rain in the lower elevations of Gila County caused Tonto Creek to be come impassable. Residents were stranded on one side of the creek for several days. Between 400 and 600 people live on one side of the creek and often become stranded when the all three crossings become flooded.
September 2007	Hail	Pine	-	Golf ball size (1.75 inches in diameter) hail reported along Highway 87 about nine miles south of Pine.
July 2006	Hail	Pine	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported south of Pine.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Flooding was reported along Highway 87 from about 7 miles south of Pine to the East Verde River.
July 2006	Hail	Pine	-	Quarter sized hail was reported 5 miles south of Pine.
September 2002	Hail	Pine	-	A spotter in Pine reported 3/4 inch hail for 5 minutes.
September 2002	Hail	Pine	-	A second storm in Pine produced pea sized to 3/4 inch hail.
August 1999	Flash Flood	Pine	-	Thunderstorm rainfall amounts of nearly three inches in two and half hours caused Pine Creek to leave its banks in the town of Pine. Numerous smaller drainages in the Pine area also flooded.
September 1997	Hail	Pine	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Pine	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Pine	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gila 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.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Alfred Jason Randall House	under 500 feet	2000
Pine Community Center Historic District	0.2 miles	2005
Hunt Farmstead Historic District	0.4 miles	2021
Strawberry School	3.9 miles	2005
Natural Bridge Lodge	4.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000146 in Record Group 79.
Gila County	All 43 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.