Built in 1985. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
From the record
“Slide Rock State Park is an Arizona State Park located in Oak Creek Canyon 7 miles (11 km) north of Sedona, Arizona, United States. It takes its name from a natural water slide formed by the slippery bed of Oak Creek.”
Wikipedia article Slide Rock State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1991 · category: District · built in 1985.
National Register reference number.91001857- 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
286 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 286 fires within 5 miles of Pendley Homestead Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29,781 acres in total. 180 started naturally. 7 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
180
Recreation and ceremony
39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
36
Smoking
8
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Arson/incendiarism
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Debris and open burning
1
Fireworks
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 2011
Natural
under an acre
Coconino National Forest
GRACE
9 September 2011
Natural
under an acre
Coconino National Forest
SAUCER
8 September 1996
Natural
under an acre
Coconino National Forest
SHOT
6 September 2016
Natural
under an acre
Coconino National Forest
CRAZY
6 September 2001
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Coconino National Forest
POCKET
5 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sedona, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 3 heavy rain, 3 hail, 2 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.
The stream gauge on Oak Creek in Sedona rose above action stage at (7 feet) at 900 AM on March 21. It reached a peak of 16.35 feet at 600 AM on March 22 and then dropped below 7 feet around 1100 PM March 22. Flood stage is at 14.0 feet.
The river gauge on Oak Creek in Sedona (Tlaquepaque) showed a 3 foot rise starting around 215 PM MST and peaked around 230 PM MST. The thunderstorm was moving from north to south through Oak Creek Canyon and then out over the Sedona area. Smaller washes then started flowing and caused the closure of several roads (Back 'O Beyond, Sunset Drive, and Doodlebug Drive).
Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused flooding in the Sedona area. Mud, boulders, and high water blocked Highway 179 south side of Sedona. Some vehicles were stalled in the high water.
A lightning casued fire burned 84 acers on Mt Wilson in the Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness 4 miles north of Sedona. About 90 firefighters hiked in 5 miles to fight the blaze. A helicoper and an air tanker were also used to help put out the fire.
Doppler radar estimates of 2 plus inches of rain per hour caused flash flooding and mudslides in Oak Creek Canyon. A 4 foot tall slab of mud was left on Highway 89A in the Indian Gardens section of the canyon. Nearby, the Schnebly Hill underpass was flooded with water three feet deep and debris across the road.
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.
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.
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