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Sierra Bonita Ranch
A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“The Sierra Bonita Ranch, founded in 1872 by Henry C. Hooker, is one of the oldest cattle ranches in the United States and the ranch buildings have been designated a National Historic Landmark.”
Wikipedia article Sierra Bonita Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 31 National Register listings published here for Graham County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000181- 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
26 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Sierra Bonita Ranch
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 723 acres in total. 10 started naturally. None was 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
Natural
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Recreation and ceremony
4
Smoking
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
1 September 2004
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
POWER
1 September 1992
Natural
1.0 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
8 August 2008
Natural
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
STEELE
16 August 1996
Natural
300 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
11 August 1995
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
45 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
7 July 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
140 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
ASH CREEK
28 July 1993
Recreation and ceremony
40 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
24 July 1994
Natural
7.0 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Sierra Bonita Ranch: 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Zinc. 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
Bonita, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.
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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