Photograph by U.S. Forest Service, Southwestern Region, Kaibab National Forest, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via
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Grandview Lookout Tower and Cabin
Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“The Grand View Lookout Tower is a fire lookout in Kaibab National Forest near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The 80-foot (24 m) tall steel tower was built in the 1930s.”
Wikipedia article Grandview Lookout Tower and Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1936.
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Flagstaff
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number.87002482- 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
184 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Grandview Lookout Tower and Cabin
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,196 acres in total. 146 started naturally. 4 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
146
Recreation and ceremony
20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Debris and open burning
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Smoking
2
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Grandview Lookout Tower and Cabin: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Copper, Semiprecious Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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
5 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.
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.
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