First Presbyterian Church of Peoria

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

One of 467 National Register listings published here for Maricopa County · listed in 2012 · 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. 10236 N. 83rd Ave., Peoria, 85345
When was it listed? August 2012
Category. building
Census division. Phoenix
National Register reference number. 12000493 - 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

824 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 824 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Peoria between 1995 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	799
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-121835
9 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-110821
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	154089
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-101205
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	154088
7 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-101204
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	El Mirage Fire Department	NOT NAMED
6 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sun City Fire Department	NOT NAMED

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Peoria: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Mica, Salt. 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
Agua Fria Pit Sun Valley Crushing	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Alonzo Elder Muscovite #1	Mica	Producer
Southwest Mine & Mill	Salt	Producer
Unidentified Halite Occurrence	Halite	Past Producer	Halite
Arizona Sand & Rock, Agua Fria Plan	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand and Gravel Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sand and Gravel
Union Rock & Materials, El Mirage	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
United Metro Pit & Plant #2 Glendal	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Maricopa County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peoria, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2010: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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
July 2005	Lightning	Peoria	$500,000	Lightning caused a fire at a North Peoria home, completely destroying it.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Peoria	-	A section of the fabric roof at the University of Phoenix Stadium was ripped off due to the powerful winds and heavy rain. Reporters indicated about 1,500 square feet of fabric was damaged. At about the same time, a construction trailer was blown over near 87th Avenue and Glendale.
January 2008	Flash Flood	Peoria	-	Maricopa County Sheriffs office reports multiple road closures along the Cave Creek. Numerous washes were running in the area.
March 2004	Heavy Rain	Peoria	-	Heavy rain accompanied thunderstorms moving eastward across the metropolitan area. Some of the heavier amounts included 2.95 inches in Fountain Hills, and 1.97 inches in Mesa. Firefighters in Surprise performed shallow-water rescues and the Phoenix Fire Department responded to over 130 calls during the storm. Phoenix Sky Harbor airport reported 1.16 inches, along with some flight delays.
September 2002	Funnel Cloud	Peoria	-	Funnel cloud spotted in parts of Peoria, Glendale and north Phoenix..
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Peoria	-	Clay tiles blown off roof of Target store.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Peoria	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Peoria	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Peoria	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Maricopa 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
Peoria Jail House	under 500 feet	2020
Central School	under 500 feet	1982
Peoria High School Old Main	0.7 miles	2018
Sahuaro Ranch	2.8 miles	1980
Myrtle Avenue Residential Historic District	3.4 miles	2009
Thunderbird Estates and The McDonald Addition Historic District	3.4 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000493 in Record Group 79.
Maricopa County	All 467 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.