Grand Canyon Airport Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Approx. 2.6 E of jct. of US 180 and Forest Rd. 305, Tusayan
When was it listed? August 2007
Category. district
Census division. Flagstaff
National Register reference number. 07000278 - 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Grand Canyon Airport Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,511 acres in total. 167 started naturally. 2 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	167
Recreation and ceremony	13
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	RED
6 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	CURLEY
5 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	306
4 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	GOVERNMENT
29 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	MOP IT
24 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	HIGHWAY
23 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	RUSTY
23 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	BERLINDA

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tusayan, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Flash Flood	Tusayan	$7,000,000	Between 1 to 2.5 inches of rain fell in around two hours just east and northeast of the town of Tusayan and the South Entrance to The Grand Canyon National Park. This caused significant flooding of homes homes, buildings, and cars. Highway 64 into the GCNP was closed, shelter in place orders were put into place, and children were stuck in their school because they could not safely get home.
September 2013	Heavy Rain	Tusayan	-	Thunderstorms produced about one inch of rain in under an hour. This created some flooding problems in the Grand Canyon Village and below the Rim. One range guage in the area reported 0.92 inches of rain in 40 minutes. Another guage in the area reported 1.85 inches of rain between 135 PM and 245 PM.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Tusayan	-	Between 1.22 and 2.50 inches of rain fell across the South Rim of the Grand Canyon westward to Supai Village in 5 to 8 hours. Rockslides were reported on Bright Angel Trail.
August 2008	Hail	Tusayan	-	Hail slightly larger than a nickel (7/8 inch diameter) was reported a the Grand Canyon Airport.
September 1995	Hail	Tusayan	-	A thunderstorm piled up hail two inches deep on State Highway 64 creating icy road conditions and caused several collisions. Three-quarter inch hail up to two inches deep was reported in the same area.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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 07000278 in Record Group 79.
Coconino County	All 140 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.
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.