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Photograph of Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Painted Desert Community Complex

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Painted Desert Community Complex is the administrative center of Petrified Forest National Park. The community center includes administrative facilities, utility structures and National Park Service employee housing, planned by architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander as part of the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program.”

Wikipedia article Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 2005 · category: District · built in 1965, by Richard Neutra · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. One Park Rd., Petrified Forest National Park, 86028
  • When was it listed? April 2005
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Puerco
  • When was it built? 1965
  • Architect. Richard Neutra
  • National Register reference number. 05000284 - 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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Painted Desert Community Complex between 1993 and 2018, burning about 10 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePuerco Valley Fire Districtnot named
10 July 2002Naturalunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyUPPER
4 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePetrified Forest National ParkGRASS FIRE #2
31 May 1993Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresPetrified Forest National ParkSANTA FE
30 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresPuerco Valley Fire Districtnot named
28 May 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePetrified Forest National ParkMILE 313 FIRE
8 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPetrified Forest National ParkNINEMILE
7 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePetrified Forest National ParkTRUCK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Painted Desert Community Complex: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Uranium DepositsUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Thirty-Fifth Parallel Route0.4 miles1977
Painted Desert Inn1.2 miles1975
Painted Desert Inn1.4 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000284 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Apache CountyAll 24 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.