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One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1924.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Promontory Butte Lookout Complex
Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Rim Rd., Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, Beaver Park, 85931
- When was it listed? January 1988
- Category. structure
- Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
- Census division. Flagstaff
- When was it built? 1924
- National Register reference number. 87002455 - 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
987 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 987 fires within 5 miles of Promontory Butte Lookout Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,670 acres in total. 283 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 556 |
| Natural | 283 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 56 |
| Smoking | 53 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
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 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | WINDY |
| 8 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | PROMONTORY BUTTE |
| 6 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | 34BRD#4 |
| 6 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | BUTTE |
| 5 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | RYKER |
| 5 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | SEE |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Christopher-Kohl's Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 4 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | OHACO |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Promontory Butte Lookout Complex: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mormon Lake Uranium Claims | Uranium | Prospect |
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 87002455 in Record Group 79. |
| Coconino County | All 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.
- 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.