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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
Tusayan Lookout Tree
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. W of US 180, SW of Tusayan, Kaibab NF, Tusayan, 86023
- When was it listed? January 1992
- Category. site
- Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
- Census division. Williams
- National Register reference number. 91001951 - 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
460 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 460 fires within 5 miles of Tusayan Lookout Tree between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,630 acres in total. 227 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 | 227 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 178 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | TRICK |
| 8 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | not named |
| 8 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | CHARLEY |
| 7 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | APACHE |
| 7 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | LONG |
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | TEN |
| 6 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | COCONINO |
| 5 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | 306 |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tusayan Lookout Tree: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Star Claims MS 1210a | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Eastern Star Mine | Copper | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Southern Star | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Southern Star Mine | Copper | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this property
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tusayan, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Tusayan | $7,000,000 | Between 1 to 2.5 inches of rain fell in around two hours just east and northeast of the town of Tusayan and the South Entrance to The Grand Canyon National Park. This caused significant flooding of homes homes, buildings, and cars. Highway 64 into the GCNP was closed, shelter in place orders were put into place, and children were stuck in their school because they could not safely get home. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Tusayan | - | Thunderstorms produced about one inch of rain in under an hour. This created some flooding problems in the Grand Canyon Village and below the Rim. One range guage in the area reported 0.92 inches of rain in 40 minutes. Another guage in the area reported 1.85 inches of rain between 135 PM and 245 PM. |
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Tusayan | - | Between 1.22 and 2.50 inches of rain fell across the South Rim of the Grand Canyon westward to Supai Village in 5 to 8 hours. Rockslides were reported on Bright Angel Trail. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Tusayan | - | Hail slightly larger than a nickel (7/8 inch diameter) was reported a the Grand Canyon Airport. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Tusayan | - | A thunderstorm piled up hail two inches deep on State Highway 64 creating icy road conditions and caused several collisions. Three-quarter inch hail up to two inches deep was reported in the same area. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Moqui Ranger Station | 1.5 miles | 1993 |
 | Water Reclamation Plant | 5.4 miles | 1974 |
 | Horace M. Albright Training Center | 5.5 miles | 2013 |
 | Grand Canyon Park Operations Building | 5.8 miles | 1987 |
 | Grand Canyon Village Historic District (Boundary Increase) | 5.8 miles | 1995 |
 | Ranger's Dormitory | 5.8 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91001951 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.