Poland Tunnel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 1978 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. W of Poland off AZ 69, Poland, 86333
When was it listed? March 1978
Category. structure
Census division. Prescott
National Register reference number. 78000570 - 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

327 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Poland Tunnel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 503 acres in total. 163 started naturally. 7 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
Natural	163
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	68
Recreation and ceremony	56
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
8 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	BANNIE
7 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	SHORT
7 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	TRITLE
6 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	PATCH
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District	EAGLE
4 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	TRANSCENDENT
4 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 189 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 189 workings within 5 miles of Poland Tunnel: 83 past producers, 51 producers, 33 prospects, 13 unknowns. 52 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alligator	Zinc, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Alturas Mine	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver	Producer	1924, 1945
Arizona Victory Copper	Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead	Past Producer
Black Diamond Mine	Lead, Gold, Silver, Copper	Producer	1910, 1919
California	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Cash	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Quartz, Zinc	Past Producer
Cash Mine	Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Semiprecious Gemstone, Quartz	Past Producer	Vein
Champion Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc	Producer	1916, 1946
Champion Patent M S 1314	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Prospect
Chase	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yavapai 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.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Walker Charcoal Kiln	0.9 miles	1976
Groom Creek School	3.9 miles	1992
Rock House	5.2 miles	1994
Palace Station District	5.3 miles	1976
Lynx Creek Bridge	7.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000570 in Record Group 79.
Yavapai County	All 127 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.