Kay-El-Bar Ranch

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: District.

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

The listing

Address. N of Wickenburg on Rincon Rd., Wickenburg, 85390
When was it listed? May 1978
Category. district
Census division. Congress
National Register reference number. 78000572 - 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

51 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Kay-El-Bar Ranch between 1993 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wickenburg Fire Department	NOT NAMED
12 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
29 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
18 August 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Wickenburg Fire Department	NOT NAMED
16 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wickenburg Fire Department	NOT NAMED
14 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	TOWERS
1 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	FLORES
1 July 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	MARTINEZ

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Kay-El-Bar Ranch: 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 producers, 4 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Goddard Mining Co	Copper, Gold	Unknown
Iron City	Gold, Silver, Iron, Calcium	Occurrence	Vein
Iron City	Iron, Limestone, Dimension, Manganese	Prospect
Oro Grande Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Producer	1900, 1904, 1932
Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Sunset Prospect	Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect
Burchfield Feldspar	Feldspar, Mica	Occurrence	Feldspar, Muscovite
Burchfield Feldspar	Feldspar, Mica	Occurrence
Cat's Pause	Zeolites	Producer	Clinoptilolite
Cat's Pause	Zeolites	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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000572 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.