Tonto National Monument Visitor Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Gila County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Arizona State Highway 188, Gila, 85545
When was it listed? September 2010
Category. building
Census division. Globe-Miami
Architect. Cecil J. Doty
National Register reference number. 10000734 - 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Tonto National Monument Visitor Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,803 acres in total. 35 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Recreation and ceremony	16
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2017	Natural	231 acres	Tonto National Forest	YELLOW JACKET
4 September 2013	Natural	173 acres	Tonto National Forest	PINION
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tonto National Monument	NATIONAL
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	NATIONAL
9 August 1993	Natural	23 acres	Tonto National Forest	not named
8 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	GEPHART
8 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	ALCHESAY
7 August 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Tonto National Forest	SALOME

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tonto National Monument Visitor Center: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Thorium. 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
Christmas Gift M S 4587	Gold	Past Producer
Ida A Claims	Thorium	Occurrence	Monazite
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gila 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

3 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
Tonto National Monument, Lower Ruin (AZ U:8:047A ASM)	0.2 miles	1989
Tonto National Monument, Upper Ruin (AZ U:8:048 ASM)	0.4 miles	1989
Theodore Roosevelt Dam National Register District	3.6 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000734 in Record Group 79.
Gila County	All 43 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.