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Hermits Rest Concession Building

Built in 1914 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Hermits Rest is a structure built in 1914 at the western end of Hermit Road at the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States. The Hermit Trail, a hiking trail that extends to the Colorado River, begins about ΒΌ mile beyond the shuttle bus stop at Hermits Rest.”

Wikipedia article Hermits Rest, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1914, rustic architecture, by Mary Colter.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, 86023
  • When was it listed? August 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Williams
  • When was it built? 1914
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • Architect. Mary Colter
  • National Register reference number. 74000335 - 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

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Hermits Rest Concession Building between 1992 and 2019, burning about 47 acres in total. 95 started naturally. 6 were 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
Natural95
Recreation and ceremony90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkDRIPPING
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkE-3
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkMIMBRENO
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkRIM
30 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkCOCONINO
26 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkCHUCK
23 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestSIDING
15 September 1997Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestBORDER

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hermits Rest Concession Building: 5 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kyanite, Uranium, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, Antimony, Lead, Nickel, Molybdenum, Manganese, Magnesite, Gold, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Orphan Lode MineUranium, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, Antimony, Lead, Nickel, Molybdenum, Manganese, Magnesite, Gold, IronPast Producer1891
Sillimanite OccurrenceKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Canyon, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1995TornadoGrand Canyon-Pilot reported seeing a tornado.,,

Every storm 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

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000335 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coconino CountyAll 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.
  • 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.