BlockFrom the record
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 2012 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Camp Naco Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- Address. Jct. of Willson Rd. & Newell St., Naco, 85620
- When was it listed? October 2012
- Category. district
- Census division. Bisbee
- National Register reference number. 12000853 - 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
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Camp Naco Historic District between 1993 and 2019, burning about 290 acres in total. 3 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 | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | KINLEY |
| 26 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | ARIZONA STREET |
| 16 July 2005 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | RM |
| 30 June 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Gila District Office | HILLS |
| 27 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 26 June 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 11 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bisbee Fire Department | not named |
| 5 May 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | RIVER FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Camp Naco Historic District: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this property
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naco, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 | Flash Flood | Naco | $10,000 | United States Border Patrol agents from the Naco Border Patrol Station rescued a woman who was trapped in her vehicle in a flooded wash. The woman was trapped by the flood for more than 45 minutes before the officials were notified. When rescuers did arrive the car was surrounded by rising, swiftly running water that was about 2 inches from the top of the car door and above the victims waist inside. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Naco | $5,000 | Heavy rain caused Purdy Lane to become flooded in Naco. Flood waters entered one home near the roadway. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Naco | $3,000 | Thunderstorm outflow winds damaged several trees in Bisbee. Two shallow-rooted tree were blown down completely. Winds also peeled back roofing material on the patio of one house. |
| November 2019 | Flood | Naco | - | Around one inch of rain fell in southern Cochise County during the afternoon of November 27th with a total of 2 to 3 inches of rain by midnight. By mid evening, several roads became impassable. This included Davis Road, King's Highway north of Route 80 and Frontier Road at Double Adobe. Route 80 was closed west of the Mule Pass Tunnel due to a rock slide. |
| August 2010 | Flash Flood | Naco | - | Very heavy rainfall fell across portions of southwest Cochise county, especially around the Sierra Vista and Hereford areas. The Department of Highways reported that several roads in Sierra Vista and Hereford had to be closed due to street flooding. In addition, several washes were flooding in the area. |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Naco Border Station | 0.6 miles | 1991 |
 | John Treu House | 6.5 miles | 1995 |
| Warren Historic District | 6.7 miles | 2025 | |
 | Walter Douglas House | 6.9 miles | 2000 |
 | Bisbee Woman's Club Clubhouse | 7.1 miles | 1985 |
 | Evergreen Cemetery | 7.2 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000853 in Record Group 79. |
| Cochise County | All 76 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.