Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“The Strawberry Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located in northwestern Gila County, Arizona, in the small mountain community of Strawberry. Built of pine logs in 1885, the Strawberry Schoolhouse is reputed to be the "oldest standing schoolhouse in Arizona" and now functions as a fully restored local history museum, complete with a late-19th century classroom exhibit.”
Wikipedia article Strawberry Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Gila County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.05000422- 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
187 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Strawberry School
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,343 acres in total. 106 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
Natural
106
Recreation and ceremony
37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
18
Debris and open burning
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Arson/incendiarism
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
2
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Strawberry School: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Strawberry, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 flash flood, 3 heavy rain, 2 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.
Scattered strong thunderstorms developed across northwest Maricopa county during the afternoon hours on July 18th. Due to a significant infusion of tropical moisture from hurricane Dolores, the storms produced torrential rainfall with peak rain rates well in excess of 3 inches per hour; one of the communities that was especially hard hit by the heavy rain was Wickenburg. Heavy rain in the Wickenburg area began around 1630MST and continued through the evening hours; many flood control district rain gages in the area reported storm total rainfall amounts ranging from 3 inches to nearly 4.5 inches. The excessive rainfall led to episodes of flash flooding; according to the Department of Highways, at 1805MST U.S. Highway 60 was closed at milepost 111 due to the fact that the road was flooded and impassable. Earlier, at 1742MST a trained spotter 1 mile southeast of Wickenburg reported 2 inches of rain measured in 30 minutes which flooded area roadways. Additionally, another spotter 2 miles southwest of Wickenburg reported Cemetary Wash running with very heavy rapids and water was reported to be 2 inches deep across the front yard of some homes. At 1746MST heavy rain caused the Casandro Wash to rise to 6.7 feet which is above flood stage. Fortunately, no injuries were reported due to the flash flooding.
Fossil Creek Road (Forest Road 708) closed for several days due to damage from heavy rain and flooding that occurred on August 16th and 17th. Closure began morning of August 18th and remain closed for several week or more.
Four and a half (4.50) inches of rain fell over a four day period in Pine. Pine Creek was flowing over two low water crossings. The deepest was 10 to 18 inches on March 13.
Heavy rain fell across Northern Gila County. Here are some 24 hours rainfall amounts (inches):||Washington Park 3.72 |1 S Pine 3.28 |4 N Kohls Ranch 3.13|1 SW Washington Park 2.99 |4 NNW Star Valley 2.63 |1 E Payson 2.47 |Payson 2.21 |Young 2.03.
Heavy rainfall from strong thunderstorms produced areas of flooding in the Wickenburg area. Standing and running water was reported near the intersection of highways 93 and 60, not far from the center of Wickenburg. Rainfall rates up to three quarters of an inch per hour were also reported in the area.
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
6 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.
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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