Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“Main in Cottonwood, Arizona is a historic house built in 1890 for Mary Grace Willard, an early settler who arrived in 1888 and homesteaded the land upon which the house sits. The house is unique as being built of brick and having Queen Anne style, at such an early time, and for a homestead house.”
Wikipedia article Willard House (Cottonwood, Arizona), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.86002166- 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
297 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Willard House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 155 acres in total. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
256
Natural
12
Recreation and ceremony
8
Debris and open burning
6
Smoking
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Arson/incendiarism
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 2020
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Prescott National Forest
OXBOW
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
18 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
54 workings within 5 miles of Willard House: 18 past producers, 15 producers, 10 prospects, 6 unknowns.
15 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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