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One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1932.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Moqui Lookout Cabin
Built in 1932. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Coconino National Forest, Blue Ridge, 86024
- When was it listed? January 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
- Census division. Flagstaff
- When was it built? 1932
- National Register reference number. 87002457 - 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
394 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 394 fires within 5 miles of Moqui Lookout Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34,264 acres in total. 297 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 | 297 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 60 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | BABY |
| 6 September 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | LJ |
| 4 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | SMOKE |
| 4 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | SHARP |
| 4 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | OMELET |
| 30 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | FINAL |
| 30 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | GOODBYE |
| 29 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | LAST |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Moqui Lookout Cabin: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Claims | Manganese | Past Producer | 1942 | |
| Blue Ridge Property | Manganese | Past Producer | Psilomelane | |
| Lost Apache Claim | Manganese | Past Producer | Psilomelane | |
| Lost Apache Claim | Manganese | Past Producer | 1952 |
Storms near this property
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Ridge, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Blue Ridge | - | A climber in Jacks Canyon downstream from the Canyon Fire area reported heavy rain and hail started around 1215. He also stated: The primary stage of the flood was from 1245-1430. Secondary stage from 1430-1630 and tertiary 1630- until we exited around 1845. The next morning the water was still flowing but had decreased by 80% or so. During the storm we were having lightning strikes with in a mile every 90secs between 1230-1430. Hail and high winds for 15-30 minutes around 1300. Hail stones around 4-8mm.||I would guess that the size and energy of the flood had to do more with the fact that it was a recent fire area. The storm did move from the East to the South West which pretty much follows the topography of the canyon. The debris was mostly fire damage trees and soil.||No other reports of flooding in that area were received. |
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 87002457 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.
- 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.