Inscription Rock

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1978 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Keams Canyon off AZ 264, Keams Canyon, 86034
When was it listed? April 1978
Category. site
Census division. Hopi
National Register reference number. 78000557 - 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

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Inscription Rock between 1994 and 2020, burning about 221 acres in total. 15 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
Debris and open burning	35
Natural	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	2
Fireworks	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 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	CHICKEN COOP
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	BURROW
24 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	POOCHA
14 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	JEDDITO II
10 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	SW JEDDITO
1 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Hopi Agency	UNIT 572
5 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hopi Agency	DASHEE
29 August 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hopi Agency	JEDDITO

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Inscription Rock: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper. 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
	Koley Black No1	Uranium, Copper	Prospect

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keams Canyon, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2006: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2006	Hail	Keams Canyon	-	One inch diameter hail fell in Keams Canyon.
August 2003	Hail	Keams Canyon	-	Dime to nickel sized (3/4 to 7/8 inch diameter) hail fell in Keams Canyon.

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000557 in Record Group 79.
Navajo County	All 46 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.