Rural Route 66, Brannigan Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Forest Rd. 146 E of Parks to Brannigan Park, Parks, 86001
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic US Route 66 in Arizona MPS
Census division. Flagstaff
National Register reference number. 89000375 - 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

261 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Rural Route 66, Brannigan Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,247 acres in total. 157 started naturally. 2 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	157
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Recreation and ceremony	32
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	BRANNIGAN
8 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	MAXWELL
4 September 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
30 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	MOONSET
30 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	SKIPPER
29 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	NOSE
29 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	SHERWOOD
29 September 2004	Natural	5.0 acres	Coconino National Forest	POCKET

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Rural Route 66, Brannigan Park: 9 past producers, 7 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Perlite. 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
Pit 1042	Perlite	Past Producer
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Bellemont No. 5 Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Bellemont No. 6 Cinder Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parks, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 heavy rain, 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
October 2010	Hail	Parks	$5,000	A narrow strip of hail covered the pavement on Interstate 40 near mile post 180. Two cars lost control and slid off the road.
September 2025	Hail	Parks	-	Public reported, via social media, hail in Parks up to the size of quarters.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Parks	-	Local Law Enforcement reported that the flash flooding left large rocks, trees, bushes, and debris on area roads. Public works was called out to clean up the mess.
July 2021	Heavy Rain	Parks	-	About two inches of rain fell between 1810 and 1854 near the community of Parks. Rain gauge measured 3.31 inches of total rain during the day.
August 2019	Hail	Parks	-	Quarter sized (1 inch diameter) was reported just south of the Parks Exit on I-40.
August 2014	Heavy Rain	Parks	-	A trained spotter 7 miles northeast of Parks reported 4.14 inches of rain in 32 hours with flooding on a forest road near Government Mountain. Another spotter northwest of Parks reported 1.95 inches of rain in about the same time period.
October 2010	Hail	Parks	-	Golf ball sized (1.75 inches in diameter) fell in Parks.
July 2008	Hail	Parks	-	A thunderstorm produced heavy rain and hail in Parks.
August 2008	Hail	Parks	-	Nickel sized (7/8 inch diameter) hail fell in and around Parks. The hail covered the ground like snow. A spotter reported 4 inches of hail on the ground. The wind was gusting to 30 MPH during this storm.
August 2006	Hail	Parks	-	Quarter sized hail fell in Parks for about 10 minutes.
August 1997	Hail	Parks	-	Three quarter inch diameter hail reported by the public and covering the ground to 7 inches deep. Dense fog developed as the hail melted reducing visibility to less than 1/4 mile.
July 2006	Heavy Rain	Parks	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Parks	-	no account filed
September 1996	Hail	Parks	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Abandoned Route 66, Parks (1931)	2.0 miles	1989
Rural Route 66, Parks	2.0 miles	1989
Abandoned Route 66, Parks (1931)	2.8 miles	1989
Abandoned Route 66, Parks (1921)	3.1 miles	1989
Volunteer Lookout Cabin	3.2 miles	1988
Abandoned Route 66, Parks (1921)	3.4 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000375 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.
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.