Tuzigoot Museum

Built in 1936 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1936, National Park Service rustic.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Alternate US 89A HWY and Tuzigoot Rd, Tuzigoot National Monument, Clarkdale, 86324
When was it listed? September 2010
Category. building
Census division. Mingus Mountain
When was it built? 1936
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 10000518 - 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

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Tuzigoot Museum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 121 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	211
Natural	11
Debris and open burning	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3

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
9 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	OXBOW
30 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
29 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Verde Valley Fire District	NOT NAMED
26 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	12-0002075
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Verde Valley Fire District	NOT NAMED
19 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
18 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
18 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	12-0002007

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Tuzigoot Museum: 12 producers, 8 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 occurrences. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Clarkdale Cement Plant Limestone Quarry	Cement Rock, Limestone, General	Producer	Sedimentary
Clarkdale Clay Quarry	Brick Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Sedimentary
Green Monster Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver	Producer	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Gold
Jerome Slag Dump	Copper, Iron	Unknown
Jerome Verde Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1901, 1920
Mccarthy Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay	Producer
Verde Combination Group	Lead, Copper, Thorium	Prospect
Pretty Folly	Uranium	Prospect
Smoki 1-9	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this property

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkdale, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2022	Flash Flood	Clarkdale	-	The Clarkdale Police Department reported that the Old Jerome Highway/89A was closed due to flooding and debris. Reta Street was also closed due to the flooding.
June 2022	Flash Flood	Clarkdale	-	Two inches of rain (radar estimate) from a thunderstorm caused flash flooding in Clarkdale. Water flowed over sections of Wildhorse Lane and Old Jerome Highway. Police reported mud and rocks on the roadways with both streets barricaded.
September 2015	Flash Flood	Clarkdale	-	Heavy rain from thunderstorms produce flash flooding over the Old Jerome Highway closing the road.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clarkdale	-	A 64 MPH wind gusts was measured at the Mesonet site in Clarkdale.
July 2006	Funnel Cloud	Clarkdale	-	A well defined funnel cloud was seen in the Clarkdale/Sycamore Canyon area.
July 2004	Hail	Clarkdale	-	A thunderstorm produce one inch diameter hail on the southwest side of Clarkdale.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Clarkdale	-	Thunderstorm rains filled the normally dry Bitter Creek. Junk automobiles that were being stored in the creek bed were moved several feet downstream.
August 2000	Hail	Clarkdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yavapai 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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Tuzigoot Developed Area Historic District	0.5 miles	2025
Willard House	1.4 miles	1986
Edens House	1.5 miles	1986
Cottonwood Commercial Historic District	1.6 miles	2021
Building at 826 North Main Street	1.7 miles	1986
Clark Memorial Clubhouse	1.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000518 in Record Group 79.
Yavapai County	All 127 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.
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.