Grandview Lookout Tree

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1992 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. S of Grandview Pt., Grand Canyon NP, in Kaibab NF, Grand Canyon
When was it listed? January 1992
Category. site
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Flagstaff
National Register reference number. 91001945 - 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Grandview Lookout Tree between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40,555 acres in total. 178 started naturally. 3 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	178
Recreation and ceremony	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	RAE
6 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	HULL
6 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	VIEW
6 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	SINKING SHIP
29 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Kaibab National Forest	TEN X
26 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	TWIN
26 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	2.3 acres	Kaibab National Forest	BLUE STEM
25 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	TWIN TANKS

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Grandview Lookout Tree: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
	Coconino County Mn Deposits	Manganese	Past Producer	1918
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Canyon, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. 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
July 1995	Tornado	Grand Canyon	-	Pilot reported seeing a tornado.,,

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

4 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
Hull Tank Lookout Tree	1.3 miles	1992
Grandview Lookout Tower and Cabin	2.2 miles	1988
Hull Cabin Historic District	2.7 miles	1985
Grandview Mine	5.9 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001945 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.