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Photograph of PS Knoll Lookout Complex
Photograph by U.S. National Park Service, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

PS Knoll Lookout Complex

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The PS Knoll Lookout Complex is a fire lookout tower and accompanying cabin located in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. The nine-acre site consists of three contributing buildings and one contributing structure.”

Wikipedia article PS Knoll Lookout Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1933.

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 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Maverick
  • When was it listed? January 1988
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
  • Census division. Eagar-Springerville
  • When was it built? 1933
  • National Register reference number. 87002451 - 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of PS Knoll Lookout Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,304 acres in total. 155 started naturally. None 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
Natural155
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2009Natural1.0 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestWEST FORK
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresApache-Sitgreaves National Forestnot named
29 September 2000Natural15 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestCENTER
9 August 2000Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestBUFFALO
9 August 1995Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestHOODOO
8 August 2009Natural51 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestPS
7 August 2009Natural633 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestWILDCAT
6 August 1996Natural2.8 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestBUFFALO

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of PS Knoll Lookout Complex: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maverick, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Heavy RainMaverick-The Mesonet station 14 miles east-southeast of East Fork (QLMA3) recorded 2.16 inches of rainfall.

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87002451 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Apache CountyAll 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.
  • 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.