Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Fort Apache Historic Park is a tribal historic park of the White Mountain Apache, located at the former site of Fort Apache on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. The park interprets the rich and troubled history of relations between the Apache and other Native American tribes at the fort, which was converted into a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school after its military use ended.”
Wikipedia article Fort Apache Historic Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1976 · category: District.
National Register reference number.76000377- 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
756 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 756 fires within 5 miles of Fort Apache Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 179 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
Arson/incendiarism
179
Debris and open burning
163
Misuse of fire by a minor
112
Natural
78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
72
Smoking
52
Recreation and ceremony
47
Other causes
19
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Fireworks
11
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Fort Apache Historic District: 5 unknowns, 3 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Whiteriver, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2019: 6 flash flood, 4 heavy rain, 2 hail.
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.
Heavy rain from a thunderstorm over the Locust Burn area produced significant debris flows and street flooding. Large rocks and sand were carried onto roadways and all drainages were full.
Radar estimated that 0.5 to 1.2 inches of rain fell over the Cedar Fire scar. A 12 to 18 inch crest moved down Cedar Creek and through the town of Cedar Creek. This is the first of many post fire floods that happened during the summer of 2016.
Heavy rain fell across Navajo Gila County. Some of the rainfall amounts (in inches) include: 15 miles south of Heber 2.32, Navajo National Monument 1.61, Show Low Airport 0,84, Winslow 0.84, and Petrified Forest National Park 0.34.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 17 issues,
132 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
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.
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.
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