Taylor Cabin Line Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Area, Sedona
When was it listed? July 1985
Category. district
Census division. Williams
National Register reference number. 85001580 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Taylor Cabin Line Camp between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4,096 acres in total. 63 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	63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	6

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 2010	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	COBBLE FLAT
5 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.1 acres	Coconino National Forest	BUNKER
23 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	DOGIE
23 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	not named
2 September 2005	Natural	1.0 acres	Coconino National Forest	OTTER
14 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	KENNEDY DAM
11 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	BAR CROSS
10 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	APPLE

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 Taylor Cabin Line Camp: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Quartz, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Quarries	Stone, Dimension, Quartz, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedona, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 3 heavy rain, 3 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2024	Flash Flood	Sedona	-	Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused a 2.3 foot rise on Oak Creek in Sedona.
March 2023	Flood	Sedona	-	The stream gauge on Oak Creek in Sedona rose above action stage at (7 feet) at 900 AM on March 21. It reached a peak of 16.35 feet at 600 AM on March 22 and then dropped below 7 feet around 1100 PM March 22. Flood stage is at 14.0 feet.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Sedona	-	Heavy rain caused Oak Creek to rise 1.5 feet at the gauge in Sedona (OAKA3).
July 2021	Flash Flood	Sedona	-	Heavy rain and rushing water caused a rock fall on Highway 89A just north of Sedona.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Sedona	-	The river gauge on Oak Creek in Sedona (Tlaquepaque) showed a 3 foot rise starting around 215 PM MST and peaked around 230 PM MST. The thunderstorm was moving from north to south through Oak Creek Canyon and then out over the Sedona area. Smaller washes then started flowing and caused the closure of several roads (Back 'O Beyond, Sunset Drive, and Doodlebug Drive).
September 2009	Heavy Rain	Sedona	-	Heavy rain fell over Sedona and flooded a portion of Highway 179 blocking traffic.
September 2008	Hail	Sedona	-	A thunderstorm produce hail close to the size of nickles from The Village of Oak Creek to Sedona.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Sedona	-	Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused flooding in the Sedona area. Mud, boulders, and high water blocked Highway 179 south side of Sedona. Some vehicles were stalled in the high water.
June 2005	Hail	Sedona	-	Two resorts just north of Sedona reported 3/4 inch to 1 inch diameter hail for about 5 minutes.
August 2005	Heavy Rain	Sedona	-	A spotter in Sedona reported 1.46 inches of rain in 45 minutes. The power was knocked out.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedona	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down tree limbs in Sedona. Water was flowing over streets in downtown Sedona.
September 2003	Hail	Sedona	-	Quarter sized (1 inch diameter) hail was reported in southeast Sedona.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Sedona	-	A tree was blown down in Sedona.
August 2000	Wildfire	Sedona	-	A lightning casued fire burned 84 acers on Mt Wilson in the Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness 4 miles north of Sedona. About 90 firefighters hiked in 5 miles to fight the blaze. A helicoper and an air tanker were also used to help put out the fire.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Sedona	-	Doppler radar estimates of 2 plus inches of rain per hour caused flash flooding and mudslides in Oak Creek Canyon. A 4 foot tall slab of mud was left on Highway 89A in the Indian Gardens section of the canyon. Nearby, the Schnebly Hill underpass was flooded with water three feet deep and debris across the road.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Sedona	-	Highway 89a just north of Sedona was closed due to mudslides and 3 feet of water across the roadway.Highway 179 in Sedona was closed due to flooding.
August 2000	Heavy Rain	Sedona	-	no account filed
August 2000	Flood	Sedona	-	no account filed
June 1996	Waterspout	Sedona	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001580 in Record Group 79.
Coconino County	All 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.
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.