Shumway School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off AZ 77, Shumway, 85901
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Census division. Snowflake
National Register reference number. 79000420 - 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

76 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Shumway School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 8 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	40
Natural	19
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	LOVE LAKE RANCH
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	LINDEN TANK
11 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WHITE MOUNTAIN
9 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	HWY 77 MP 351
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	THISTLE TANK
26 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	THISTLE
18 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	HWY 77 LONE PINE DAMN RD
17 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	LONE PINE

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shumway School: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shumway, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 2 heavy rain. 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 2016	Heavy Rain	Shumway	-	Heavy rain (1.50 inches) fell from a thunderstorm near Snowflake. Snowflake Police reported rising in the Silver Creek basin south of Snowflake.
July 2013	Heavy Rain	Shumway	-	Two inches of rain caused street flooding in Shumway.

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.

Listed places nearby

6 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
Aquilla Standifird House	3.9 miles	2004
Norman Brimhall House	3.9 miles	2004
Jordan Palmer House	4.1 miles	2004
A.Z. Palmer House	4.2 miles	2004
Snowflake Stake Academy Building	7.0 miles	1980
Jesse N. Smith House	7.0 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000420 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.