Buck Mountain Lookout Tower

Built in 1939. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Buck Mountain Lookout Tower is a groundhouse and fire lookout in the Coronado National Forest in Arizona, United States. The structure was designated as a National Historic Lookout on April 1, 2001, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1987.”
Wikipedia article Buck Mountain Lookout Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1939.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Coconino National Forest, Buck Mountain, 86024
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? 1939
National Register reference number. 87002460 - 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

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Buck Mountain Lookout Tower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,586 acres in total. 234 started naturally. 16 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	234
Recreation and ceremony	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2007	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	MAXWELL
7 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	UPPER
6 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	JACKS
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	WHOOPS
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	OWL
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	BOTTLE
28 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	SHED
27 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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 87002460 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.