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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
West Peak Lookout Tower
Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Coronado National Forest, Bonita, 85643
- When was it listed? January 1988
- Category. structure
- Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
- Census division. Bonita-Klondyke
- When was it built? 1933
- National Register reference number. 87002466 - 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
83 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of West Peak Lookout Tower between 1993 and 2019, burning about 31,450 acres in total. 69 started naturally. None 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 | 69 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
| 2 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | LEE FIRE |
| 8 August 2018 | Natural | 10 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | BLUE JAY |
| 8 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | JURASSIC |
| 6 August 2004 | Natural | 28 acres | Coronado National Forest | TRIPP |
| 26 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | WEST |
| 19 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | RIDGE |
| 18 August 2003 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Coronado National Forest | RED BIRD |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of West Peak Lookout Tower: 6 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Barium-Barite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Beauty Group | Tungsten, Beryllium, Lithium | Past Producer | 1916, 1955 | |
| Cocreham Beryllium | Beryllium, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Prospect | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Gold Bug Tunnel 22 | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lindsey Gold-Silver Group | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Snowrock Claims | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Black Beauty Prospect | Tungsten | Past Producer | 1955 | |
| Graham Claim | Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | ||
| Graham Prospect | Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | 1955 |
Storms near this property
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonita, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bonita | $6,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bonita | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several power poles near the Bonita school. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bonita | - | Strong thunderstorm wind gusts snapped one power pole in half which then caused seven others to topple down 17 miles north of the Town of Willcox. |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Bonita | - | 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webb Peak Lookout Tower | 7.0 miles | 1988 | |
 | Columbine Work Station | 7.6 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002466 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.
- 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.