James Finley House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The James Finley House is a historic home located on the Hale Ranch in the ghost town of Harshaw, Arizona. Built around 1877, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and is now the most prominent building remaining in this ghost town.”
Wikipedia article James Finley House (Harshaw, Arizona), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Finley, James, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 7.2 mi. SW of Patagonia in Coronado National Forest, Patagonia, 85624
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. building
Census division. Patagonia
National Register reference number. 74000462 - 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of James Finley House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,829 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	46
Natural	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	WILLOW SPRINGS
15 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Coronado National Forest	GARDEN II
15 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AFTERNOON
15 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	MIDNIGHT
13 September 2019	Natural	2.9 acres	Coronado National Forest	BOG HOLE
4 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	HARSHAW
20 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	ALUM
15 August 2020	Natural	350 acres	Coronado National Forest	SADDLE

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 142 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 142 workings within 5 miles of James Finley House: 83 past producers, 27 producers, 15 prospects, 12 occurrences. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Lead. 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	Recorded
Alta Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1875, 1877, 1952
American Mine	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Augusta Mine	Lead, Silver, Manganese, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer
Basin Mine Group	Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead	Producer	1882, 1885, 1949
Bender Mine	Manganese, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Producer	1875, 1880, 1959
Bender Property	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Manganese	Past Producer
Black Eagle Mine	Manganese, Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold	Producer	1875, 1918, 1930
Blue Eagle Mine	Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold	Producer	1897, 1903, 1956
Blue Nose Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Manganese	Past Producer	1880, 1884, 1956
Blue Nose Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Manganese	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this property

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patagonia, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 hail, 8 flash flood, 8 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2016	Flash Flood	Patagonia	$10,000	Three to four inches or more of rainfall in one to two hours caused Sonoita Creek to overflow its banks into parts of Patagonia. Eight mobile homes were evacuated as a precaution with water 18 inches deep surrounding them. An additional 14 homes were also evacuated. Only minimal damage occurred to the skirting of these homes since they were elevated off the surface.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Patagonia	$6,000	Strong thunderstorm winds near the Town of Patagonia caused a several hundred pound storage shed to be damaged when blown across a yard. Also shingles were torn off several roofs in a neighborhood.
July 2025	Flash Flood	Patagonia	$1,000	An estimated 3 ft of water moved across low water crossing on Forest Service 143 Rd.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Patagonia	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches at several locations in Patagonia.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Patagonia	$1,000	Several tree branches and a power line were downed by thunderstorm winds in Patagonia.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Patagonia	$300	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Patagonia	-	A personal weather station gusted to 83 mph in Patagonia, AZ.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Patagonia	-	CWOP weather station CW4232 recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
August 2023	Flash Flood	Patagonia	-	Heavy rain of 1-2 inches along Sonoita and Harshaw Creeks caused flash flooding of rural roadways east of Route 82 northeast of Patagonia as well as Sonoita Ave in Patagonia.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Patagonia	-	A thunderstorm wind gust to 73 mph was recorded at CWOP site GW3161 near Patagonia at 1616MST.
July 2021	Hail	Patagonia	-	A slow moving thunderstorm produced several minutes of nickel to quarter size hail near Patagonia.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Patagonia	-	Flash flooding occurred along Red Rock and Harshaw Creeks. Streets in Patagonia were impassable where flood waters crossed up to 2 feet deep.
July 2007	Hail	Patagonia	-	Hail 1.5 in diameter occurred in Patagonia due to an intense thunderstorm.
July 2006	Hail	Patagonia	-	Local law enforcement reported one inch (1.00 inch) hail in the Town of Patagonia.
July 2006	Hail	Patagonia	-	A strong thunderstorm brought hail to the Town of Patagonia, with sizes of hail ranging from a quarter of an inch to over three quarters of an inch. Hail was covering the ground in some locations.
August 2006	Hail	Patagonia	-	Golf ball size hail was reported in the Town of Patagonia.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Patagonia	-	Widespread street flooding occurred in the Town of Patagonia and also in the Town of Rio Rico due to heavy rainfall.
September 2005	Flash Flood	Patagonia	-	A trained spotter east of the Town of Patagonia reported that Cimmarron Road was impassable due to flood waters. The same spotter reported that they had received two inches of rain in less than one hour.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Patagonia	-	A trained spotter in Patagonia reported a measured thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph (51 knots).
August 2004	Flash Flood	Patagonia	-	Heavy rainfall in Patagonia caused the streets to flood and the garage of the fire station to be flooded. There was not property damage, however the streets where impassable throughout most of the town.
July 2022	Hail	Patagonia	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Patagonia	-	no account filed
September 1997	Flash Flood	Patagonia	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Patagonia	-	no account filed

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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Cady Hall	5.8 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000462 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.