Beaver Creek School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 2016 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 4810 E. Beaver Creek Rd., Rimrock, 86335
When was it listed? September 2016
Category. building
Census division. Camp Verde-Sedona
National Register reference number. 16000631 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Beaver Creek School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 802 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 6 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	143
Equipment and vehicle use	52
Natural	47
Smoking	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
8 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	INTERSECTION
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	LAWRENCE CROSSING
7 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	WINTER
7 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	HIGH
5 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	SUNSET
4 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	MISSISSIPPI
29 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	153002
25 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	124 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District	CRESOTE

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Beaver Creek School: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
B and B Materials Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Gravel, Sand
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this property

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rimrock, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 4 hail, 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
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Rimrock	$1,000,000	The Rimrock Fire District reported wind caused roof damage to homes along Airport Road, one mobile home flipped, and 12 inch diameter trees were uprooted. Power poles were blown down or snapped along Beaver Creek Road. In all, 41 structures suffered minor damage, six structures suffered major damage, and 2,300 people were without power after the storm hit.
October 2025	Flash Flood	Rimrock	-	The West Clear Creek stream gauge near Camp Verde (WCLA3) recorded a rapid 6.5 ft rise. That's an increase in flow from 48 to 6039 cfs.
October 2025	Flash Flood	Rimrock	-	A USGS stream gauge on West Clear Creek near Camp Verde (WCLA3) recorded a 3.6 foot rise from widespread heavy rainfall across the basin. That's an increase in flow from 509 to 4154 cfs.
July 2010	Heavy Rain	Rimrock	-	Over one and half inches (1.60) of rain fall overnight. Most of that fell from 645 AM to 838 AM.
October 2010	Hail	Rimrock	-	A thunderstorm produced 1.25 inch diameter hail. The trail at Lake Montezuma was closed due to the hail.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Rimrock	-	A thunderstorm produced very windy conditions with wind gusts estimated to be over 60 MPH and was tearing up signs.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Rimrock	-	A car was stuck in an overflowing wash near Beaver Creek School in Rimrock.
October 2005	Hail	Rimrock	-	Lots of one inch diameter hail. Larger hail (1 1/2 inch diameter) caused damage to vehicles.
August 2000	Hail	Rimrock	-	A thrunderstorm produced hail, and strong wind in the Rimrock area. There were reports of one inch hail and wind damaged roofs.
September 1999	Flash Flood	Rimrock	-	Very heavy rain across the western Mogollon rim produced small stream flooding in the Oak Creek basin. On the Wet Beaver Creek northeast of Rimrock, stage rises of 5 feet in one hour were detected by USGS gages.
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Rimrock	-	Thunderstorm wind gust to 77 knots (88 mph).
September 2002	Flood	Rimrock	-	no account filed
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rimrock	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Rimrock	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yavapai 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

5 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
Montezuma Castle National Monument-Back Ranch Historic District-Montezuma Well Unit	0.6 miles	2013
Montezuma Castle National Monument	2.1 miles	1966
Beaver Creek Ranger Station	3.2 miles	1993
Robert W. Wingfield House	7.2 miles	1986
Pecan Lane Rural Historic Landscape	7.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000631 in Record Group 79.
Yavapai County	All 127 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.