Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“The Faraway Ranch Historic District is part of the Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona, and preserves an area associated with the final conflicts with the local Apache, one of the last frontier settlements, and in particular, its association with the people who promoted the establishment of the Chiricahua National Monument. Faraway Ranch is located in Bonita Canyon, which lies at an approximate altitude of 5160 feet and opens in a southwesterly direction into the Sulphur Springs Valley.”
Wikipedia article Faraway Ranch Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 1980 · category: District · built in 1887.
National Register reference number.80000368- 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
36 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Faraway Ranch Historic District
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,812 acres in total. 16 started naturally. None was 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
16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Recreation and ceremony
7
Debris and open burning
2
Smoking
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Equipment and vehicle use
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
5 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
5 August 2009
Natural
7.0 acres
Chiricahua National Monument
FARAWAY
4 August 1998
Natural
under an acre
Coronado National Forest
NORTH FORK
28 August 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District
WEST WHITE TAIL
22 August 1996
Natural
1.5 acres
Chiricahua National Monument
JESSIEJAME
21 August 1994
Natural
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
12 workings within 5 miles of Faraway Ranch Historic District: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Dos Cabezas, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flash 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.
Heavy rain occurred over the Horseshoe 2 burn scar area of the Chiricahua Mountains. The Horseshoe 2 BAER team reported three washouts on Pinery Road in the northern portions of the Chiricahua Mountains.
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
2 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.
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.
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