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Photograph of Brow Monument and Brow Monument Trail
Photograph by United States Dept. of Interior, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Brow Monument

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Brow Monument is a monument listed in the National Register of Historic Places for Coconino County, Arizona, United States, located in the Kaibab National Forest. The site contains one of the few remaining survey markers used by the expedition of John Wesley Powell in 1872 It is accessible via the Brow Monument Trail.”

Wikipedia article Brow Monument and Brow Monument Trail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1987 · category: Object.

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 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N. Kaibab Ranger District, Kaibab National Forest, Big Springs
  • When was it listed? July 1987
  • Category. object
  • Census division. Kaibab Plateau
  • National Register reference number. 87001159 - 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Brow Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88,333 acres in total. 126 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
Natural126
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1995Natural4.0 acresKaibab National ForestPASS
5 September 1994Natural1.0 acresKaibab National Forestnot named
29 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKaibab National ForestSOWATS
27 September 2014Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestPOLE
26 September 1996Natural4.5 acresKaibab National ForestRANGER
26 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestDOVE
24 September 2019Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestHOLLOW
21 September 2009Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKaibab National ForestWAMPITTS

Every fire 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

4 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Little Mountain Lookout Tree2.2 miles1992
Big Springs Ranger Station2.8 miles1993
Big Springs Lookout Tower3.6 miles1988
Corral Lake Lookout Tree7.4 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001159 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coconino CountyAll 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.