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One of 204 National Register listings published here for Pima County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
U.S. Inspection Station-Sasabe, Arizona
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. U.S. Inspection Station--Sasabe, Arizona - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. AZ 286, Sasabe, 85633
- When was it listed? May 2014
- Category. building
- Census division. Arivaca
- National Register reference number. 14000243 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
38 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Inspection Station-Sasabe, Arizona between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,572 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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 | 17 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arivaca Volunteer Fire Department | 187 |
| 14 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge | POWER |
| 11 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 7 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge | GARCIA TANK |
| 5 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge | MP2-HWY286 |
| 4 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arivaca Volunteer Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 28 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 26 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge | BAILEY |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of U.S. Inspection Station-Sasabe, Arizona: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payoff Mine | Copper, Silver | Producer | 1951, 1952 |
Storms near this property
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sasabe, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Lightning | Sasabe | 4 hurt | A suspected illegal immigrant was struck and injured by lightning while traveling through the desert of the Altar Valley near Sasabe. Three of his companions were also shocked when the bolt hit the man who suffered minor injuries. |
| July 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Sasabe | - | Custom officials at the Port of Customs in Sasabee reported several funnel clouds. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000243 in Record Group 79. |
| Pima County | All 204 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.