J.H. Smith Grocery Store and Filling Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“Smith Grocery Store and Filling Station, at 1835 Old Ranch Rd. in Dragoon, Arizona, was built in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article J.H. Smith Grocery Store and Filling Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Smith, J.H., Grocery Store and Filling Station - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1835 Old Ranch Rd., Dragoon, 85609
When was it listed? July 2004
Category. building
Census division. Benson
National Register reference number. 04000720 - 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of J.H. Smith Grocery Store and Filling Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,017 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 5 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	94
Natural	35
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Debris and open burning	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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	4.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	GUNNISON
21 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	OXYGEN
19 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
14 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	REST AREA
12 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	APPRENTICE
29 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	TOWERS
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.8 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District	TOUCHSTONE
25 August 2011	Natural	1,632 acres	Coronado National Forest	FOURR

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 85 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 85 workings within 5 miles of J.H. Smith Grocery Store and Filling Station: 53 past producers, 12 occurrences, 12 prospects, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver. 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	Recorded
Apache Yellow Quarries	Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	1909, 1953
Banks Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Huebnerite, Scheelite
Banks Mine	Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Bluebird Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Quartz	Past Producer	1898
Bluebird Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Bismuth, Beryllium	Past Producer	1898, 1900
Buena Vista Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	1914, 1937
Burrel Claim Group	Copper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten, Zinc	Past Producer
Burro Pit	Silica, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1960, 1970
Centurion Area Small Mines	Tungsten, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Scheelite
Dividend Tunnel	Tungsten, Copper, Beryllium, Bismuth	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this property

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dragoon, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 2018	Flash Flood	Dragoon	1 killed, $10,000	Heavy rain of 1.5 to 2 inches fell over a two hour period over and just east of the 2017 Lizard Fire Burn Scar. A motorist drown when his car became stuck in flood waters on Cochise Stronghold Road a mile south of Dragoon Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dragoon	$11,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down seven power poles along Dragoon Rd forcing it to close for a several hours.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Dragoon	$10,000	Four power poles were downed along Dragoon Rd.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Dragoon	$2,000	A trained spotter reported flash flooding across roadway. With a nearby measured rainfall of 1.18 inches in 30 minutes.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dragoon	$1,000	A trained spotter reported wind damage to awnings of a residence near Dragoon. The Willcox sheriff reported a horse was killed near Cochise, after a downed power line electrocuted the animal.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dragoon	-	Personal weather station estimate of 60 mph gust.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Dragoon	-	Heavy rain of 1.5 in 1 hour caused flash flooding and the closure of Dragoon Rd. south of Interstate 10.
September 2016	Flash Flood	Dragoon	-	Thunderstorms produced brief heavy rain that caused 6 to 12 inches of water to flow over Dragoon Road and Old Ranch Road.
July 2008	Flash Flood	Dragoon	-	A trained spotter reported flooding on Highway 191 near Pearce.
July 2018	Hail	Dragoon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cochise 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 04000720 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cochise County	All 76 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.