Photograph of Trans-Canyon Telephone Line — Photograph by Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Trans-Canyon Telephone Line, Grand Canyon National Park

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Trans-Canyon Telephone line crossed the Grand Canyon from the South Rim to the North Rim via the Inner Canyon. On the south side of the Canyon, the phone line left the South Rim developed area near Bright Angel Lodge, went down Pipe Creek, and crossed the Colorado River.”
Wikipedia article Trans-Canyon Telephone Line, Grand Canyon National Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1986 · category: Structure · built in 1935, by National Park Service.

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

The listing

Address. Grand Canyon along Bright Angel & North Kaibab Trails from South Rim to Roaring Springs & South Kaibab Trail to Tipoff, Grand Canyon, 86052
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. structure
Census division. Kaibab Plateau
When was it built? 1935
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 86001102 - 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Trans-Canyon Telephone Line, Grand Canyon National Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	52
Natural	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	VILLAGE
25 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	ALBRIGHT
20 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	ELK
13 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	HAUNTED
13 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	YAVAPAI PT
8 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	PHANTOMCRK
8 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	JOHNSON
7 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	BOX

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Canyon, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. 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 1995	Tornado	Grand Canyon	-	Pilot reported seeing a tornado.,,

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.

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
El Tovar Hotel	5.4 miles	1974
Superintendent's Residence	5.4 miles	1974
Grand Canyon Railroad Station	5.5 miles	1974
Grand Canyon Lodge	5.5 miles	1982
Grand Canyon Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)	5.5 miles	1995
Ranger's Dormitory	5.5 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001102 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.