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One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1936.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hyde Mountain Lookout House
Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Prescott National Forest, Camp Wood, 86305
- When was it listed? January 1988
- Category. building
- Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
- Census division. Prescott
- When was it built? 1936
- National Register reference number. 87002491 - 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
60 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Hyde Mountain Lookout House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 26,989 acres in total. 47 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 | 47 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Prescott National Forest | PANTHER |
| 16 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | CONNELL |
| 13 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 11 acres | Prescott National Forest | not named |
| 6 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | STINSON |
| 31 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | SHIVERS |
| 28 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | COTTONWOOD |
| 26 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | CARTER |
| 26 August 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | YOLO |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hyde Mountain Lookout House: 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Lead, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Wood | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Camp Wood Sillimanite Group | Aluminum | Unknown | ||
| Juniper | Lead | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Creek Ranger Station | 7.5 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002491 in Record Group 79. |
| Yavapai County | All 127 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.