Webb Peak Lookout Tower

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Graham County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1933.

Sources: 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. Off AZ 366, Old Columbine, 85543
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Safford
When was it built? 1933
National Register reference number. 87002464 - 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Webb Peak Lookout Tower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36,830 acres in total. 119 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	119
Recreation and ceremony	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	GUY FIRE
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	GRAND
23 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	CUNNINGHAM
22 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	MEADOW
2 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	MOONSHINE CREEK FIRE
2 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	LEE FIRE
17 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	SHINGLE
13 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Coronado National Forest	ASH

Every fire recorded in Graham 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 Webb Peak Lookout Tower: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Beryllium, Mica. 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
	Twilight and Grey Claims	Beryllium, Mica	Occurrence	Beryl, Mica
	Twilight and Grey Groups	Beryllium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Graham 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.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Columbine Work Station	0.8 miles	1993
Heliograph Lookout Complex	6.0 miles	1988
West Peak Lookout Tower	7.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002464 in Record Group 79.
Graham County	All 31 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.