Photograph of Kendrick Mountain Fire Lookout Cabin — Photograph by US Forest Service, Photo by R. H. Lewis, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kendrick Lookout Cabin

Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Kendrick Lookout Tower is a fire lookout in Arizona's Kaibab National Forest overlooking the Kendrick Mountain Wilderness and areas around Humphrey's Peak and Flagstaff. According to the Forest Service website, "When the lookout tower is open during summer months, the lookout operator usually welcomes visitors to visit the top of the tower to enjoy the views." However, the lookout tower appears to be damaged and likely abandoned as of June 2024.”
Wikipedia article Kendrick Lookout Tower and Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1911.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Kaibab National Forest, Pumpkin Center, 86001
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Flagstaff
When was it built? 1911
National Register reference number. 87002480 - 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

235 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 235 fires within 5 miles of Kendrick Lookout Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35,882 acres in total. 187 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	187
Recreation and ceremony	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2015	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	BULL
8 September 2019	Natural	2.0 acres	Coconino National Forest	BASIN
4 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	YEAGER
3 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	SIXTY-SIX
3 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	MEGA
3 September 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Kaibab National Forest	BOUNDRY
29 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	not named
27 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	NEWMAN

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kendrick Lookout Cabin: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Kendrick Peak No. 1 Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Cinders

Every working 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	C. Hart Merriam Base Camp Site	7.2 miles	1966
	Fern Mountain Ranch	7.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002480 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.
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.