Bear Mountain Lookout Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Bear Mountain Lookout Complex is an Arizona Fire lookout within the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. It was registered as a national historic lookout on March 4, 2002.”
Wikipedia article Bear Mountain Lookout Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Greenlee County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure.

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, Mogollon Rim, 85922
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Clifton
National Register reference number. 87002452 - 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Bear Mountain Lookout Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64,259 acres in total. 74 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
Natural	74
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
18 August 2020	Natural	35,371 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	COW CANYON
16 August 1993	Natural	4.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
15 August 2018	Natural	63 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	FRANZ
13 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BEAR MOUNTAIN
11 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	AUGER
1 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
1 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
9 July 2011	Natural	50 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	LITTLE BEAR

Every fire recorded in Greenlee 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 87002452 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenlee County	All 10 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.