El Camino Del Diablo

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“El Camino del Diablo, also known as El Camino del Muerto, Sonora Trail, Sonoyta-Yuma Trail, Yuma-Caborca Trail, and Old Yuma Trail, is a historic 250-mile (400 km) road that passes through some of the most remote and inhospitable terrain of the Sonoran Desert in Pima County and Yuma County, Arizona. The name refers to the harsh, unforgiving conditions on the trail.”
Wikipedia article El Camino del Diablo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 204 National Register listings published here for Pima County · listed in 1978 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. NW of Lukeville, Lukeville
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 78000560 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of El Camino Del Diablo: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Gold. 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
	Rasmussen	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
	Rasmussen	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this property

10 since 1998

Regional 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

Every storm recorded in Pima 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 78000560 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.