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Photograph of Bowie School District No. 14
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Bowie School District No. 14

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Bowie School District No. 14 is a complex of four school buildings and supporting structures together on one block in Bowie, Arizona. The entire complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 2015.”

Wikipedia article Bowie School District No. 14, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 2015 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 315 W. 5th St., Bowie, 85605
  • When was it listed? April 2015
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Bowie
  • National Register reference number. 15000168 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

44 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Bowie School District No. 14 between 1993 and 2019, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeFORT BOWIE
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
16 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRUNNING
6 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBOWIE
27 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictLUZENA
10 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeKV POWER
11 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBowie Fire DistrictI 10 MM 361
8 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictCOWBOY

Every fire recorded in Cochise 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 Bowie School District No. 14: 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Geothermal, Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bowie Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rough ClaimsTungstenOccurrence1945
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Name UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Name UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Name UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowie, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2014Flash FloodBowie$50,000Thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall that flooded five homes in Bowie, some with up to a foot of water. The courthouse also sustained minor damage from an inch of water entering the building. High water also caused the temporary closure of a short stretch of Interstate 10 from Mile Marker 365 to near 366. Multiple car accidents occurred in that area, forcing the closure of both the eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 10 for about an hour. Apache Pass and Roberts Farm Road were also closed in Bowie.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBowie$12,000Report of overturned semitruck along Interstate 10. No injuries were reported.
September 2018Flash FloodBowie$10,000Thunderstorms produced periods of heavy rain totaling 2 to 3 inches during the early morning hours. Interstate 10 near Bowie was closed in both directions due to flash flooding. Several swift water rescues were performed.
September 2025Flash FloodBowie$2,000Arizona Department of Transportation camera showed an estimated foot of water moving across Apache Pass Road in Bowie, AZ. A nearby rain gauge recorded 0.43 inches of rainfall.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBowie$1,000The Willcox sheriff reported that thunderstorm winds blew down an outbuilding in Bowie.
September 2025HailBowie-Estimated hail size of 1.5 inches with hail accumulation covering the roadways of roughly 8 inches deep.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBowie-Weather station recorded wind gust of 60 mph.
September 2025HailBowie-Report of nickel sized hail (0.88 inch in diameter) with an observed wind gust of 51 mph nearby report.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBowie-A severe thunderstorm in northeast Cochise County resulted in a wind gust to 66 mph along Interstate 10 between San Simon and Bowie.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBowie-A wind gust to 63 mph was recorded at the Bowie AZDOT sensor at 1403MST.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBowie-A thunderstorm wind gust to 60 mph was recorded at a Union Pacific weather station near Bowie.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBowie-A wind gust to 68 mph was recorded by a state DOT sensor at Olga and Interstate 10.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBowie-A wind gust to 60 mph was recorded by a state DOT sensor at Olga and Interstate 10.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBowie-CWOP AU921 south of Bowie measured a thunderstorm wind gust to 59 mph.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindBowie-A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured by a state DOT weather instrument at Bowie, Arizona.
July 2007Flash FloodBowie-Three men were rescued from swift moving flood waters near Bowie.
July 1996Flash FloodBowie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cochise 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000168 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cochise CountyAll 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.