Los Burros Ranger Station

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Los Burros Ranger Station is a forest ranger station situated in Apache County, Arizona. The station was staffed by rangers who traveled to the nearby Lake Mountain Lookout.”
Wikipedia article Los Burros Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1910.

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

The listing

Address. Forest Rd. 20, McNary
When was it listed? October 1986
Category. building
Census division. Eagar-Springerville
When was it built? 1910
National Register reference number. 86002854 - 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Los Burros Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,776 acres in total. 132 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	132
Recreation and ceremony	26
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	TUFF
7 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BUTLER
5 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	SEPTEMBER
4 September 2019	Natural	2,361 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	TELEPHONE
24 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	OAK
2 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WOLF
17 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BROWN
15 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	LOS BURROS

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Los Burros Ranger Station: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials. 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
Spoonseller Mtn. Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown

Every working recorded in Apache 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lake Mountain Lookout Complex	1.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002854 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Apache County	All 24 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.