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One of 204 National Register listings published here for Pima County · listed in 1978 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bull Pasture
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- Address. E of Lukeville on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Lukeville, 85341
- When was it listed? September 1978
- Category. site
- Census division. Ajo
- National Register reference number. 78000380 - 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
8 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bull Pasture between 2013 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument | MYSTERY |
| 27 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument | RESCUE |
| 2 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument | AJO |
| 9 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument | POT LUCK |
| 24 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument | ALAMO |
| 11 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument | ALAMO |
| 21 January 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Papago Agency | GU VO FIRE |
| 17 January 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument | ESTES CANYON 1 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bull Pasture: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zeolites, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Molly Vein Area | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Ajo Mountains | Zeolites | Occurrence | Clinoptilolite | |
| Ajo Mountains Clinoptilite | Zeolites | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lukeville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2008 | Flash Flood | Lukeville | $25,000 | Two to three inches of rainfall occurred in the border town of Lukeville, Arizona. This caused flooding and damage to private property, businesses and government offices with water several feet high. A report from officials at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument stated a recently built fence along the international border exacerbated the flooding as a result of the fence acting like a dam and stopping the normal progression of water through the border. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lukeville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds ripped off about 40 feet of the roof to the auditorium at the Organ Pipe National Monument Visitor Center. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Lukeville | $10,000 | Rainfall amounts between 1.5 inches and 2.5 inches resulted flooding and the closure of several roads at Organ Pipe National Monument. In addition, a 40 foot section of the international border fence between the United States and Mexico was destroyed. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lukeville | $7,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed three power poles north of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Visitor Center. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lukeville | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds caused the loss of power to 56 customers from the International border to Puerto Blanco Rd for an unknown duration of time. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lukeville | $2,000 | Power pole was downed on Puerto Blanco Dr just west of Highway 85. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Lukeville | - | Heavy rain of 3-4 in 90 minutes caused flash flooding of Highway 85 near Puerto Blanco Dr. north of Lukeville. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Lukeville | - | Heavy rain of 2 to 3 in less than 1 hour at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument caused flash flooding of roadways making them impassible. |
| February 1998 | Flood | Lukeville | - | Heavy rain caused normally dry washes to flow with water. Stream gages reported rises up to 5 feet. Some road closures were reported especially in the eastern and northern portions of the Tucson Metro area. |
| August 2001 | Flash Flood | Lukeville | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| I'itoi Mo'o-Montezuma's Head and 'Oks Daha-Old Woman Sitting | 7.2 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78000380 in Record Group 79. |
| Pima County | All 204 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.