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Little Outfit Schoolhouse, The
Built in 1940. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“The Little Outfit Schoolhouse is a ranch school that was built in 1940 in southeastern Arizona. It is located on the Little Outfit Ranch in San Rafael Valley, about ten miles east-southeast of Patagonia, in Santa Cruz County, which borders Mexico on the south and is about 80 miles from Arizona's eastern border with New Mexico.”
Wikipedia article The Little Outfit Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 51 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 2009 · category: Building · built in 1940.
National Register reference number.08001275- 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
51 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Little Outfit Schoolhouse, The
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 39,654 acres in total. 25 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
Natural
25
Recreation and ceremony
14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Smoking
2
Debris and open burning
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
29 September 2018
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Coronado National Forest
CANELO PASS
15 September 2003
Recreation and ceremony
2.0 acres
Coronado National Forest
GARDEN II
15 September 2002
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.0 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
20 workings within 5 miles of Little Outfit Schoolhouse, The: 9 past producers, 8 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Copper, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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.
Listed places nearby
2 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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