Fort McDowell

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 467 National Register listings published here for Maricopa County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Indian Rt. 1, off AZ 87, Yavapai Indian Reservation, Fort McDowell, 85264
When was it listed? August 1992
Category. district
Census division. Salt River
National Register reference number. 92001050 - 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 Fort McDowell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 708 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Salt River Agency	HOUSE 21
23 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Salt River Agency	LONG
21 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	MEDIAN
15 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Salt River Agency	DRUDGE
14 September 1992	Natural	8.0 acres	Tonto National Forest	not named
9 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Salt River Agency	BEE
4 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Salt River Agency	CIRCLE
17 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Salt River Agency	HOOD

Every fire recorded in Maricopa 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 Fort McDowell: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Mcdowell Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
	Mcdowell Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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 92001050 in Record Group 79.
Maricopa County	All 467 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.