Built in 1952. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“The Coronado National Memorial commemorates the first organized expedition into the Southwest by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540. The memorial is located in a natural setting on the Mexico-United States border on the southeast flank of the Huachuca Mountains south of Sierra Vista, Arizona and is bordered to the north and west by Coronado National Forest.”
Wikipedia article Coronado National Memorial, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 1966 · category: Structure · built in 1952.
National Register reference number.66000168- 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
101 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Coronado National Memorial
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40,334 acres in total. 25 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
Recreation and ceremony
55
Natural
25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Debris and open burning
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Smoking
1
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
49 workings within 5 miles of Coronado National Memorial: 29 past producers, 10 producers, 7 prospects, 2 occurrences.
10 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bisbee, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 16 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 heavy rain.
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.
Scattered thunderstorms produced locally heavy rainfall near the intersection of State Highway 80 and Old Divide Road, approximately 2 miles northwest of Bisbee. Rainfall was not excessively heavy, with radar estimates of near 1.25 inch. However, an earlier fire burned hillsides in the area in May 2009, leaving the landscape prone to flash flooding. Flooding and debris flows destroyed portions of the road and surrounding culverts, and forced the closure of Old Divide Road.
Three inches of rain fell in Bisbee from midday on November 27 into the morning hours of November 28. A day later, a retention wall failed as a result. The debris from this failed wall caused the closure of a section of Shearer Avenue in Bisbee.
Two to four inches of rain in less than two hours caused flash flooding from east of Sierra Vista to north of Bisbee to Elfrida. Floodwaters deposited several rocks on State Rte. 80 near N. Old Divide Rd. northwest of Bisbee and caused the closure of Moson and Escapule Rds and the junction of State Rtes. 80 and 90 east of Sierra Vista. Along Davis Rd. near mile post 13, six motorists were rescued from three vehicles amidst floodwaters. Courtland and Jefferson Rds, northwest of Elfrida were also closed due to flooding.
Excessive rainfall and low visibility contributed to a fatal accident on Highway 92 near Hereford. The Cochise County emergency dispatch facility flooded along with Highway 80 at Davis road. In this location two vehicles were stuck in high water.
Around an inch of rain in the northern Mule Mountains in less than an hour caused Davis Road to become closed due to flooding flooding near mile post 13.
A trained spotter reported that there was three to four inches of water covering the road at the intersection of Highway 80 and Naco Road in the Town of Bisbee.
Thunderstorms dumping heavy rain caused flooding in downtown bisbee with reports of water up to bumpers on cars with many street closures. Washes were reported running full in the Sierra Vista area.
6 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 8,330 issues,
68,184 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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
1 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.
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.
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