Tusayan Ruins

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Tusayan Ruins is an 800-year-old Pueblo Indian site located within Grand Canyon National Park, and is considered by the National Park Service (NPS) to be one of the major archeological sites in Arizona. The site consists of a small, u-shaped pueblo featuring a living area, storage rooms, and a kiva.”
Wikipedia article Tusayan Ruins, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, 86023
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. site
Census division. Flagstaff
National Register reference number. 74000285 - 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Tusayan Ruins between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,734 acres in total. 72 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
Natural	72
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
9 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Coconino National Forest	not named
4 September 1992	Natural	3.0 acres	Coconino National Forest	not named
29 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	ESCALANTE
15 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	4.7 acres	Grand Canyon National Park	HANCE CPLX
14 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	LITTLE
14 September 1994	Natural	2.5 acres	Coconino National Forest	not named
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	CEDAR
12 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tusayan Ruins: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Asbestos. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Hance Mine	Asbestos	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Coconino 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
Desert View Watchtower Historic District	3.1 miles	1995
Hull Cabin Historic District	5.8 miles	1985
Grandview Mine	6.2 miles	1974
Grandview Lookout Tower and Cabin	6.3 miles	1988
Hull Tank Lookout Tree	7.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000285 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coconino County	All 140 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.