Grand Canyon Village Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Grand Canyon Village is a census-designated place (CDP) located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, United States. Its population was 2,004 at the 2010 Census.”
Wikipedia article Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1975 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. AZ 64, Grand Canyon, 86023
When was it listed? November 1975
Category. district
Census division. Williams
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Ellsworth and Emery Kolb, Mary Colter
National Register reference number. 75000343 - 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

425 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Grand Canyon Village Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 317 acres in total. 104 started naturally. 11 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	234
Natural	104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Smoking	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
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
8 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	not named
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
4 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	not named
30 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	COCONINO

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 Grand Canyon Village Historic District: 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	under 500 feet	1987
Grand Canyon Park Operations Building	0.1 miles	1987
El Tovar Stables	0.1 miles	1974
Buckey O'Neill Cabin	0.1 miles	1975
Grand Canyon Railroad Station	0.1 miles	1974
Ranger's Dormitory	0.1 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000343 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.