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One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Smelter Machine Shop
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 360 S. Sixth St., Cottonwood, 86326
- When was it listed? September 1986
- Category. building
- Also known as. Cottonwood MRA
- Census division. Mingus Mountain
- National Register reference number. 86002154 - 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
300 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Smelter Machine Shop between 1992 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 2 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 | 249 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | OXBOW |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 30 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Verde Valley Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 26 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 12-0002075 |
| 23 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Verde Valley Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 23 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Verde Valley Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 19 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 42 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Smelter Machine Shop: 16 past producers, 9 producers, 8 prospects, 5 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper Chief Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Producer | 1901, 1948 | |
| Copper Chief Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Green Monster Group | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Green Monster Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver | Producer | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Gold | |
| Iron King | Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Jerome Slag Dump | Copper, Iron | Unknown | ||
| Mccarthy Clay | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Shea | Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Shea Mine | Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Barium-Barite, Arsenic | Past Producer | 1918, 1941 | |
| Sullivan-Burke Property | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this property
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottonwood, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 5 heavy rain, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1999 | Lightning | Cottonwood | $40,000 | A stationary trough of low pressure centered over Nevada introduced strong westerly vertical shear to northern Arizona. This shear combined with the ever present monsoon moisture to produce numerous reports of severe weather across Yavapai county. The tornado 8 miles east of Chino Valley was observed to land in an open field and did no damage. Lightning started a house fire in Cottonwood. |
| August 2018 | Lightning | Cottonwood | $10,000 | A lightning strike started a house fire. No injuries were reported. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | $500 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | Hail up to one inch in diameter fell in Cottonwood. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Cottonwood | - | Street flooding was reported in Cottonwood with water flowing over the road. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Cottonwood | - | Cottonwood Police Department reported flooding in homes in several areas in Cottonwood. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | Strong thunderstorm winds snapped a tree trunk greater than 12 inches in diameter in front of the Clemenceau Heritage Museum. The thunderstorm also produced penny sized hail and over an inch of rain in 30 minutes. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Cottonwood | - | Heavy rain for 30 minutes (1.50 inches)--enough to float a small boat on the roads. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Cottonwood | - | Several heavy thunderstorms produced 2.44 inches of rain at the Jerome State Historical Park. This lead to flash flooding over the Old Jerome Highway. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Cottonwood | - | Heavy rain caused street flooding in Cottonwood and one street (Aspen) was closed due to the flooding. |
| September 2009 | Heavy Rain | Cottonwood | - | Heavy rain and flowing washes were reported by a spotter 3 miles southwest of Cottonwood. |
| May 2009 | Heavy Rain | Cottonwood | - | Heavy rain from a thunderstorm fell over the Cottonwood area. Rainfall rates exceeded 2.00 inches an hour in some reports. Street flooding was reported all over town by the Cottonwood Police Department. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | Dime sized (3/4 inch diameter) hail was reported in south Cottonwood with very heavy rain. |
| July 2007 | Flood | Cottonwood | - | Flash flooding closed the intersection of 6th and Date Streets. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Cottonwood | - | Three to five inches of rain fell in the Cottonwood area. Roads washed out and concrete slabs were displaced. Several homes had six to twelve inches of water in them. |
| September 1999 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | A Cottonwood weather spotter reported one inch diameter hail. |
| October 1997 | Flood | Cottonwood | - | Highway 260 in Cottonwood flooded by heavy thunderstorm rains. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | Several trees were blown down from thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Cottonwood | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Master Mechanic's House | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | Superintendent's Residence | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | UVX Smelter Operations Complex | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | Clemenceau Public School | 0.5 miles | 1986 |
| Strahan House | 0.7 miles | ||
 | Building at 826 North Main Street | 0.9 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86002154 in Record Group 79. |
| Yavapai County | All 127 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.