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One of 204 National Register listings published here for Pima County · listed in 2009 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Empirita Cattle Ranch Rural Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- Address. Between Vail & Benson S. of I10, Benson, 85602
- When was it listed? January 2009
- Category. district
- Also known as. Cattle Ranching in Arizona MPS
- Census division. Tucson
- National Register reference number. 04001247 - 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
193 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Empirita Cattle Ranch Rural Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 252 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 8 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 | 121 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 24 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mescal-J6 Fire District | not named |
| 8 September 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TRES ALAMOS |
| 7 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 27 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | BELL |
| 23 September 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | EMPIRITA CUMARO |
| 1 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | BELL ROAD |
| 6 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Empirita Cattle Ranch Rural Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I-19 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Working | Uranium | Occurrence |
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 04001247 in Record Group 79. |
| Pima County | All 204 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.