Montezuma Castle National Monument

Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a well-preserved cliff dwelling located in Camp Verde, Arizona. The National Monument also protects and preserves the Castle A site, a contemporaneous dwelling site located near the cliff dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Montezuma Castle National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1906.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 40 mi. S of Flagstaff on I-17, Flagstaff, 86335
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Camp Verde-Sedona
When was it built? 1906
National Register reference number. 66000082 - 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Montezuma Castle National Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 306 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 4 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	141
Equipment and vehicle use	45
Natural	30
Smoking	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Fireworks	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
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 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	MIDDLE VERDE
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 Montezuma Castle National Monument: 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

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
Beaver Creek School	2.1 miles	2016
Montezuma Castle National Monument-Back Ranch Historic District-Montezuma Well Unit	2.2 miles	2013
Robert W. Wingfield House	5.3 miles	1986
Beaver Creek Ranger Station	5.3 miles	1993
Pecan Lane Rural Historic Landscape	5.4 miles	2000
Fort Verde District (Boundary Increase)	6.2 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000082 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.