Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
From the record
“The Chinle Franciscan Mission Historic District is located in Chinle, Arizona, one of the population centers on the Navajo Nation. It is on the west side of the main east-west route through Chinle, Indian Service Route 7.”
Wikipedia article Chinle Franciscan Mission Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 2007 · category: District.
National Register reference number.07000506- 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
52 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Chinle Franciscan Mission Historic District
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning
23
Arson/incendiarism
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Natural
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Smoking
1
Recreation and ceremony
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Chinle Franciscan Mission Historic District: 6 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Chinle, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 10 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail.
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.
Several reports of flooding around the Chinle area. First reports were received northwest of Chinle near the community of Rough Rock where Reservation Route 59 was impassable due to floodwaters. The last reports were received near Chinle where Reservation Route 27 was also flooded over.
The Navajo Nation Emergency Manager reported flooding in Chinle on the Chinle Creek early on April 23. The flood warning was downgraded to an advisory on April 30. The emergency operations center was staffed until May 9th.
A thunderstorm produce heavy rain and a flash flood in de Chelly Wash. There was one fatality when a truck overturned in the flooded wash around 700 PM MDT.
Heavy rain over the Canyon De Chelly National Monument caused flash flooding in Pueblo Co Wash. The water was snapping trees along the banks of the wash.
Widespread flooding was reported in Chinle by Navajo County Sheriff's office. Flooding was also reported along Highway 59 near Rough Rock. Businesses and some homes along Highway 91 in Chinle were under up to two feet of water.
The Chinle Police Department reported flooding along the Chinle Wash from the confluence of the Canyon de Chelly Wash northward to Rock Point. People were evacuated as flood waters threatened homes along the Chinle Wash. One mobile home was washed off its foundations. Additional flooding was reported over the bridge on Nazlini Creek near Chinle.
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.
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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