BlockFrom the record
One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Mormon Lake Lookout Cabin
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Coconino National Forest, Mormon Lake, 86024
- When was it listed? January 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
- Census division. Flagstaff
- National Register reference number. 87002459 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
222 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Mormon Lake Lookout Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 26,580 acres in total. 146 started naturally. 1 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 | 146 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | MUDDY |
| 7 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | CHOPPER |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | ALLEN |
| 6 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | LAST |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Coconino National Forest | PATCH |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mormon Lake Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Coconino National Forest | EEYORE |
| 30 September 1992 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Coconino National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mormon Lake Lookout Cabin: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Kinnikinick Lake | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | Cinders | |
| Sedge Spring Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | Cinders |
Storms near this property
6 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mormon Lake, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016 | Hail | Mormon Lake | - | A trained spotter reported 3/4 to one inch diameter hail covering the ground in Mormon Lake. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Mormon Lake | - | One half to three-quarter inch diameter hail covered the ground near Kinnikinick Lake. |
| September 2002 | Hail | Mormon Lake | - | One inch hail was reported in Forest Lakes (40 Miles southeast of Mormon Lake). |
| October 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mormon Lake | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated in excess of 70 mph snapped cleanly numerous pine trees with 36 inch diameters and lengths up to 87 feet in the Gash Mountain area. The height of the breaks ranged from 2 feet to 30 feet AGL. |
| October 1998 | Hail | Mormon Lake | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flood | Mormon Lake | - | no account filed |
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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Butte Lookout Tower and Cabin | 7.1 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002459 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.