Pipe Spring National Monument

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Pipe Spring National Monument is a United States National Monument located in the U.S. state of Arizona, rich with American Indian, early explorer, and Mormon pioneer history. Administered by the National Park Service, Pipe Spring was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966, and the boundaries of the Pipe Spring National Monument Historic District were expanded in October 2000.”
Wikipedia article Pipe Spring National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Mohave County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1923.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 3 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. AZ 389, Moccasin, 86022
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. North Mohave
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 66000186 - 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

23 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Pipe Spring National Monument between 2002 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 12 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Southern Paiute Agency	OLD VILLAGE
19 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Southern Paiute Agency	MOBILE
18 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Southern Paiute Agency	PASTURE
8 July 2015	Natural	under an acre	Southern Paiute Agency	CALF
8 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Southern Paiute Agency	CALF
24 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Southern Paiute Agency	POINT SPR
22 July 2006	Natural	30 acres	Southern Paiute Agency	MOCCASIN 3
22 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Strip Field Office	PIPESPRING

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this property

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moccasin, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2024	Flash Flood	Moccasin	$2,000	Highway 389 was flooded with water, mud, and debris.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Moccasin	$2,000	A citizen posted video on YouTube of water and mud flowing over roads in Moccasin.

Every storm recorded in Mohave 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Pipe Spring National Monument Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.5 miles	2000
	Big House	3.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000186 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mohave County	All 64 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.
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.