Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
From the record
“The Arivaca Schoolhouse is a historic one-room school building located in the unincorporated community of Arivaca, in southern Pima County, Arizona. A small and simple structure made of locally manufactured mud adobe bricks, the Arivaca Schoolhouse was built in 1879 and is the oldest standing schoolhouse remaining in Arizona.”
Wikipedia article Arivaca Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 204 National Register listings published here for Pima County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.12000199- 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
67 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Arivaca Schoolhouse
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,242 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
27
Natural
17
Recreation and ceremony
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Debris and open burning
4
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Firearms and explosives use
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
5 September 2002
Natural
1.0 acres
Coronado National Forest
CANINE
30 September 2000
Natural
under an acre
Coronado National Forest
ARIVACA
3 September 1995
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
19 September 2005
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
UNIVERSAL RANCH
12 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
11 September 2004
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
BUSHMASTER
5 August 2000
Natural
1.0 acres
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
CIENEGA
3 August 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
134 workings within 5 miles of Arivaca Schoolhouse: 98 past producers, 14 producers, 13 prospects, 5 occurrences.
14 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Arivaca, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 5 flash flood, 4 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.
Heavy rain resulting in flash flooding near Arivaca began around 1430 MST when several low water crossings were reported as impassable. Law enforcement reported that Indian Road 19 just north of South Komelik had to be closed around 1500 MST. Heavy rain amounts such as 1.25 inches in 1 hour and 2.75 inches in 2.5 hours were reported by spotters. Both Sapo Tank and Yellowjacket Wash came up in a short period of time and flowed quickly throughout the afternoon.
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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