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St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
From the record
“Paul's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church at Safford and 3rd Streets in Tombstone, Arizona, United States. Built in 1882, it is the oldest Protestant church in Arizona.”
Wikipedia article St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Tombstone, Arizona), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.71000111- 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
59 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 59 fires within 5 miles of St. Paul's Episcopal Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 488 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
38
Natural
7
Debris and open burning
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Recreation and ceremony
2
Arson/incendiarism
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
29 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
TOMBSTONE
18 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District
CHAPULIN
11 September 2020
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District
CABALLO
5 August 2001
Natural
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
JEFFERSON
26 August 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
128 workings within 5 miles of St. Paul's Episcopal Church: 107 past producers, 9 producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects.
11 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Silver, Manganese, Silver, Gold. 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
Tombstone, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind.
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.
Charleston Road, between the Town of Tombstone and the Town of Sierra Vista, was flooded and part of the road was washed away. Damage to the road occurred between mile post 12 and mile post 14.
Cochise County official reported vehicle was stuck in flowing water at mile post 5 along Davis Rd east of Tombstone that closed for approximately 9 hours. A nearby rain gauge had 0.12 inches of rainfall.
Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles on Gleeson Rd east of Tombstone causing a loss of power for 1100 customers. One home in Tombstone also sustained roof damage.
9 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 2,915 issues,
13,507 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
4 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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