Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
From the record
“The San Rafael Ranch, formerly known as the Greene Ranch, is a historic cattle ranch located in the San Rafael Valley about a mile and a half north of Lochiel, Arizona, United States near the international border with Sonora, Mexico.”
Wikipedia article San Rafael Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 51 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 2008 · category: District.
National Register reference number.08000001- 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
56 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 56 fires within 5 miles of San Rafael Ranch Historic District
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 18,706 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 1 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
Natural
22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Recreation and ceremony
12
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
6 September 2009
Natural
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
SAN RAFAEL
8 August 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District
CANYON
8 August 2003
Natural
5.0 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
DRAGOON MOUNTAIN
3 August 2018
Natural
27 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District
CRUZ
21 August 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District
SANTA CRUZ
2 August 2013
Natural
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
SAN RAFAEL
19 August 2013
Natural
62 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
SANTA CRUS
18 August 2012
Natural
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
36 workings within 5 miles of San Rafael Ranch Historic District: 24 past producers, 5 producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Zinc. 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
Patagonia, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 8 flash flood, 8 thunderstorm wind.
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.
Three to four inches or more of rainfall in one to two hours caused Sonoita Creek to overflow its banks into parts of Patagonia. Eight mobile homes were evacuated as a precaution with water 18 inches deep surrounding them. An additional 14 homes were also evacuated. Only minimal damage occurred to the skirting of these homes since they were elevated off the surface.
Strong thunderstorm winds near the Town of Patagonia caused a several hundred pound storage shed to be damaged when blown across a yard. Also shingles were torn off several roofs in a neighborhood.
Heavy rain of 1-2 inches along Sonoita and Harshaw Creeks caused flash flooding of rural roadways east of Route 82 northeast of Patagonia as well as Sonoita Ave in Patagonia.
A strong thunderstorm brought hail to the Town of Patagonia, with sizes of hail ranging from a quarter of an inch to over three quarters of an inch. Hail was covering the ground in some locations.
A trained spotter east of the Town of Patagonia reported that Cimmarron Road was impassable due to flood waters. The same spotter reported that they had received two inches of rain in less than one hour.
Heavy rainfall in Patagonia caused the streets to flood and the garage of the fire station to be flooded. There was not property damage, however the streets where impassable throughout most of the town.
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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