Tubac Presidio

Built in 1752. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Presidio of San Ignacio de Túbac or Fort Tubac was a Spanish built fortress. The fortification was established by the Spanish Army in 1752 at the site of present-day Tubac, Arizona.”
Wikipedia article Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1970 · category: Site · built in 1752.

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 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Broadway and River Rd., Tubac, 85646
When was it listed? December 1970
Category. site
Census division. Nogales
When was it built? 1752
National Register reference number. 70000116 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Tubac Presidio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 282 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	21
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
18 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	SPARKLETT
15 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	not named
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
27 June 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tubac Presidio: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Gold, Copper	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tubac, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Hail	Tubac	$30,000	no account filed
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tubac	$5,000	Several power poles were blown down as well as a fence in Tubac due to severe thunderstorm winds.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tubac	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two Chilean mesquite trees and uprooted a Ponderosa pine tree at the Tubac Presidio Historic Park.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Tubac	$500	Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree in Tubac Barrio.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tubac	$500	A tin roof was blown off a shed.
October 2014	Hail	Tubac	-	Spotter report of hail with some pieces as big as quarters along interstate 19 near Tubac.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Tubac	-	A large tree was uprooted by a strong thunderstorm wind gust and blocked a road in Tubac.
August 2020	Hail	Tubac	-	no account filed
July 2003	Flash Flood	Tubac	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz County

Newspapers printed here

128 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 32 issues, 128 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.

Newspaper	Published
The Weekly Arizonian	1859 to 18??

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
Rojas House	under 500 feet	1994
Otero Social Hall	under 500 feet	1994
Old Tubac Schoolhouse	under 500 feet	1970
Tumacacori National Monument	3.0 miles	1966
Tumacacori Museum	3.1 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000116 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.