Photograph of El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot — Photograph by Jeff Henley, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot-Douglas

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Depot is a Beaux Arts building constructed in 1913 in Douglas, Arizona. Two-stories tall, it was a major station on the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad line.”
Wikipedia article El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot-Douglas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
Listed as. El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot--Douglas - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Fourteenth St. and H Ave., Douglas, 85607
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Census division. Douglas
Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
National Register reference number. 86000792 - 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot-Douglas between 1992 and 2019, burning about 290 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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	33
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
15 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
10 September 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
6 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	WATSON
4 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	COUNTY
22 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Elfrida Fire District	NOT NAMED
10 August 1993	Natural	1.5 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
4 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	INDEPENDENCE
28 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	GLENN

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Passenger Depot-Douglas: 3 plants, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Tungsten. 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
(Facility) Copper Queen Smelter	Copper, Gold, Silver	Plant
Mineral Reserves Mill	Tungsten	Past Producer
Paisano Hydromet	Gold	Plant
(Facility) Douglas Copper Smelter	Copper	Plant
Cowan Pit No.1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Old English Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this property

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglas, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 15 flash flood, 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 lightning. The reports record 6 deaths and 4 injuries. 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
August 1997	Flash Flood	Douglas	6 killed	Six illegal aliens attempting to cross into the United States from Mexico were drowned when they tried to cross a flooded drainage ditch.
June 2008	Lightning	Douglas	2 hurt	Two children were struck by lightning in Douglas.
July 2000	Lightning	Douglas	2 hurt	2 boys, age 13 years, injured by lightning strike.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	$500,000	Roofs were blown off, fences and trees were blown down, sheds were destroyed, and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds gusting to 63 mph. Also, a large board was driven through a masonry wall, and three inmate structures at a prison site were damaged.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Douglas	$120,000	no account filed
August 2016	Flash Flood	Douglas	$50,000	Two homes on Camino del Rancho were flooded, displacing 9 people. The Red Cross provided temporary housing the the families. Numerous roads were closed around town. Over 1 inch of rain fell, and culverts were damaged along SR-80. Effects were exacerbated from heavy rain which also fell the previous day.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	$50,000	The ASOS at the Bisbee-Douglas Airport measured a wind gust of 68 mph at 556 pm MST. Law enforcement reported that thunderstorm winds blew a roof off a residence on Double Adobe Road, approximately 7 miles west of the Bisbee-Douglas Airport. The Bisbee sheriff reported thunderstorm winds blew a roof completely off a large barn along Burnt Adobe Road, and snapped four power poles. A tree was uprooted and fell on a building at the Douglas Municipal Airport.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Douglas	$40,000	Heavy rain caused State Route 80 near the City of Douglas to be flooded and impassable in three locations. There was one swift water rescue performed. The Bay Acres Mobile Home Subdivision was also flooded causing damage to some homes.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and blew a metal roof off a hardware store in Douglas.
June 2012	Lightning	Douglas	$15,000	Lightning struck a two-story house at 11th Street and C Avenue in Douglas causing the house to catch fire. Firefighters extinguished the fire in 20 minutes. Smoke damage was confined to the second story.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Douglas	$10,000	Thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall that resulted in flash flooding across portions of Cochise County. An automated rain gauge 3 miles southeast of Dragoon reported 2.6 inches of rain in less than 50 minutes. A vehicle stranded in Terry's Wash was pulled out of the wash by a trained spotter. Two people stranded in Prude Wash from their vehicle were assisted by the Cochise County sheriff. Prude Wash, which is normally dry, was running about 3 feet deep.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Douglas	$10,000	Flash flooding from thunderstorms in the City of Douglas caused damage to several city buildings and facilities.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Douglas	$10,000	Widespread street flooding occurred in the City of Douglas. Water depth at Washington Avenue and Golf Course Road was reported to be 1.5 feet deep. State Highway 80, 2 miles northeast of Douglas, was closed due to flooding. Two swift water rescues were performed. 2.50 inches of rainfall were reported within about 30 minutes in Douglas.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	$7,000	Numerous trees uprooted in Douglas. One shed was moved off its foundation, a cooler was blown off of a roof, and a stop sign was uprooted.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	$5,000	Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Company reported outages for roughly 1,400 people in Whetstone, Benson, and Wilcox due to multiple thunderstorm hazards including lightning, fallen branches, and heavy rain that arched power lines.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	$5,000	Strong winds from a severe thunderstorm lifted a utility shed from a backyard and dropped it on a neighboring fence. Trees and power poles were also knocked down by the damaging winds.
July 2025	Flood	Douglas	$1,000	Heavy rainfall from thunderstorms resulted in street flooding along 8th street in Douglas. Nearby rain gauge reported 0.66 inches of rainfall.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Douglas	$1,000	Reports of flash flooding on roadways and stranded vehicles near Washington Ave and Golf Course Road in Douglas. There was also a car stuck in flooded roadway at Primrose St and Washington Ave in Douglas.
July 2014	Hail	Douglas	-	Penny size hail was reported north of Douglas.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs north of Douglas.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	Over 1.5 inches of rain in less than 30 minutes caused flash flooding along Leslie Canyon Road on the northwest side of Douglas.
May 2012	Hail	Douglas	-	Hail up to the size of pennies covered the ground in Douglas. Heavy rain and minor street flooding accompanied the hail.
November 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Douglas	-	A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud from a thunderstorm between Douglas and McNeal in Cochise County. After obtaining pictures of this funnel cloud from the broadcast media, it was determined that this funnel was briefly in contact with the ground. Therefore, the funnel was classified as a brief tornado touchdown. There was no apparent damage from this EF-0 tornado.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	Two people were rescued from rising floodwater on Border road west of Douglas after their car overheated.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	The automated surface observing system at Douglas/Bisbee International airport reported a wind gust to 63 MPH.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	The Douglas Police Department reported that several areas of the city experienced flash flooding.
January 2006	Hail	Douglas	-	A low pressure system off the west coast of Baja California brought moisture north from the Gulf of Mexico into Southeastern Arizona. This moisture allowed for isolated showers and thunderstorms to develop in Cochise County. Several trained spotters reported that a severe thunderstorm produced three quarter inch hail.
July 2006	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	Several roads were flooded in the City of Douglas. Lots of ponding of water on streets and street flooding due to heavy rainfall.
August 2005	Hail	Douglas	-	A trained weather spotter in the Town of Douglas reported nickle size hail.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	A strong thunderstorm near the Douglas / Bisbee International Airport caused a 68 mph ( 59 knot) wind gust which was observed by the ASOS as this location.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	Washington Avenue and Highway 80 were closed due to flooding.
July 1998	Funnel Cloud	Douglas	-	A funnel cloud was observed from Cochise college.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	Severe thunderstorm winds shook buildings at Douglas-Bisbee International Airport, and tore limbs from trees. ~ ARKANSAS Miller County Brightstar,02,1830CST,,,0,0,0,0,Hail (0.88)
September 2021	Hail	Douglas	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Douglas	-	no account filed
September 2003	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	no account filed
September 2002	Hail	Douglas	-	no account filed
September 2002	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Douglas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cochise County

Newspapers printed here

34,746 digitised pages

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 3,562 issues, 34,746 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
Douglas Daily Dispatch	1903 to 1961
Douglas Daily International	1913 to 1925

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
Douglas Underpass	under 500 feet	1988
Douglas Historic District	0.3 miles	1985
Gadsden Hotel	0.3 miles	1976
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad YMCA	0.4 miles	1984
US Post Office and Customs House-Douglas Main	0.4 miles	1985
Grand Theatre	0.4 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000792 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Cochise County	All 76 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.