Built in 1897. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“The Ashfork Bainbridge Steel Dam, the first large steel dam in the world, and one of only three ever built in the United States, was constructed in 1898 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) to supply water for railway operations near Ash Fork, Arizona. It is named for the town of Ash Fork, and for Francis H.”
Wikipedia article Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1897.
National Register reference number.76000373- 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
64 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Ash Fork Steel Dam
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
31
Natural
18
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Debris and open burning
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
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
27 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Kaibab National Forest
CARLO
26 September 2016
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Kaibab National Forest
PUTNEY
24 September 1993
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Kaibab National Forest
not named
22 September 1995
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
14 September 1997
Natural
under an acre
Kaibab National Forest
WELCH
12 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Ash Fork Volunteer Fire District
91218
10 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Ash Fork Steel Dam: 9 unknowns, 8 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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
2 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.
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.
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