Deer Springs Lookout Complex

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Deer Springs 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, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1987.”
Wikipedia article Deer Springs Lookout Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1923.

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 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Mogollon Rim, 85923
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Snowflake
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 87002454 - 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Deer Springs Lookout Complex between 1992 and 2019, burning about 147 acres in total. 134 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	134
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	GEO TN CBQ
8 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	22 FIRE
4 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	LINCOLN
4 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	GUARD
30 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
3 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	DECKER WASH
29 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
29 September 1992	Natural	2.5 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Deer Springs Lookout Complex: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Brick Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Joe Hancock Silver	Iron, Coal	Unknown
	Rim Quarry	Brick Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Navajo 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 87002454 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Navajo County	All 46 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.