Abandoned Route 66, Ash Fork Hill

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. N of I-40 between Ash Fork and Williams, Ash Fork, 86320
When was it listed? May 1989
Category. structure
Also known as. Historic US Route 66 in Arizona MPS
Census division. Williams
National Register reference number. 89000380 - 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Abandoned Route 66, Ash Fork Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 35 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
27 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	CARLO
25 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	MCCLELLAN
24 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kaibab National Forest	not named
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	MCCULLAN
22 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
21 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	SNYDER
14 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	WELCH
10 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	PERRIN

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Abandoned Route 66, Ash Fork Hill: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer	Scoria
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pits	Pumice	Unknown

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
	Ash Fork Steel Dam	2.5 miles	1976
	Rural Route 66, Pine Springs	5.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89000380 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.