Butterfly Lodge

Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1913.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Forest Rd. 245 E of AZ 373, Apache NF, Greer, 85927
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. building
Census division. Eagar-Springerville
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number. 92000686 - 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

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Butterfly Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,122 acres in total. 139 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	139
Recreation and ceremony	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Debris and open burning	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	MARBLE
6 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	SEWER POND
30 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	GREER C
26 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BADGER
25 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BETWEEN
22 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BENNY CREEK
16 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	DEAD HORSE
15 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	HOT SAW #4

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Butterfly Lodge: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
Benny Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pits	Pumice	Unknown
Lang Creek Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greer, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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 1996	Flood	Greer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Apache 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000686 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Apache County	All 24 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.