Buckey O'Neill Cabin

Built in 1895. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Buckey O'Neill Cabin was built in 1890 by William "Buckey" O'Neill in what would become Grand Canyon National Park. O'Neill was, among many other things, a member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, who had previously been an author, sheriff, and a judge in his native Arizona.”
Wikipedia article Buckey O'Neill Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1895.

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. O'Neill, Buckey, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off AZ 64 in Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, 86023
When was it listed? October 1975
Category. building
Census division. Williams
When was it built? 1895
National Register reference number. 75000227 - 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

397 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 397 fires within 5 miles of Buckey O'Neill Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 100 started naturally. 10 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	215
Natural	100
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Smoking	14
Arson/incendiarism	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2

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 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	VILLAGE
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	APACHE
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	E-3
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	P
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	RIM
30 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	COCONINO
30 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	MILLER
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tusayan Fire District	218

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 Buckey O'Neill Cabin: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Orphan Lode Mine	Uranium, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, Antimony, Lead, Nickel, Molybdenum, Manganese, Magnesite, Gold, Iron	Past Producer	1891
Sillimanite Occurrence	Kyanite	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1995	Tornado	Grand 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Grand Canyon Power House	0.1 miles	1987
El Tovar Stables	0.1 miles	1974
Grand Canyon Village Historic District	0.1 miles	1975
El Tovar Hotel	0.2 miles	1974
Grand Canyon Railroad Station	0.2 miles	1974
Grand Canyon Park Operations Building	0.3 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000227 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.
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.