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Photograph of Grand Canyon Inn and Campground
Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grand Canyon Inn and Campground

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Grand Canyon Inn and Campground, also known as the North Rim Inn, were built by the William W. Wylie and the Utah Parks Company as inexpensive tourist accommodations on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Grand Canyon National Park.”

Wikipedia article Grand Canyon Inn and Campground, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1982 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, 86052
  • When was it listed? September 1982
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Kaibab Plateau
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 82001872 - 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Grand Canyon Inn and Campground between 1992 and 2019, burning about 47,088 acres in total. 124 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
Natural124
Recreation and ceremony24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkJIM
9 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkHADES
9 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkTHOMPSON
5 September 1999Natural81 acresGrand Canyon National ParkREDTAIL
4 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkMANZANITA
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkUNCLE JIM
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGrand Canyon National ParkUNCLE JIM2
26 September 2000Natural1.0 acresGrand Canyon National ParkDYNAMITE

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grand Canyon Inn and Campground: 1 unknown. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Coconino 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grand Canyon North Rim Headquarters0.4 miles1982
Grand Canyon Lodge0.8 miles1982
Trans-Canyon Telephone Line, Grand Canyon National Park6.1 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82001872 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coconino CountyAll 140 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.