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One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dry Park Lookout Cabin and Storage Sheds
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Kaibab National Forest, Big Springs
- When was it listed? January 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
- Census division. Kaibab Plateau
- National Register reference number. 87002479 - 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
130 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Dry Park Lookout Cabin and Storage Sheds between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,775 acres in total. 116 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 | 116 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Kaibab National Forest | COUGAR |
| 7 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kaibab National Forest | POINT |
| 6 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | DRY |
| 5 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | TOWER |
| 5 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | LOOKOUT |
| 4 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | INDIAN |
| 4 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | BLOWDOWN |
| 30 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | DRY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telephone Hill Lookout Tree | 7.4 miles | 1992 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002479 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.