Photograph of Tumacácori Mission — Photograph by SonoranDesertNPS from Tucson, Arizona, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tumacacori National Monument

Built in 1753. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1753.

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

The listing

Address. 18 mi. N of Nogales on I 19, Tumacacori, 85640
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Nogales
When was it built? 1753
National Register reference number. 66000193 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Tumacacori National Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
15 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	not named
17 July 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Coronado National Forest	TUMACACORI
14 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tubac Fire District	180936
13 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	GREEN VALLEY
12 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tubac Fire District	180923
1 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District	TOP VIEW
6 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Tubac Fire District	NOT NAMED
25 June 2008	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	BLUFF

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tumacacori National Monument: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Gold. 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
Lone Wolf Group	Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten	Prospect
San Pedro	Silver, Gold, Copper	Producer
Unknown	Gold, Copper	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this property

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tumacacori, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
July 2021	Flash Flood	Tumacacori	1 killed, 1 hurt	One inch of rain in less than 90 minutes caused rapid rises in Josephine Canyon. Two teenagers swimming near a waterfall were swept downstream by a rapid rise in the water level. One teenager drowned and another escaped the floodwaters while sustaining minor injuries and was later rescued.

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Tumacacori Museum	under 500 feet	1987
Rojas House	2.9 miles	1994
Otero Social Hall	3.0 miles	1994
Tubac Presidio	3.0 miles	1970
Old Tubac Schoolhouse	3.0 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000193 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Santa Cruz County	All 51 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.