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Photograph of Titan Missile Museum
Photograph by Mike McBey, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military Reservation

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1963. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Titan Missile Museum, also known as Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 or as Titan II ICBM Site 571-7, is a former ICBM site located about 40 km (25 mi) south of Tucson, Arizona, in the United States. It was constructed in 1963 and deactivated in 1984.”

Wikipedia article Titan Missile Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 204 National Register listings published here for Pima County · listed in 1992 · category: Site · built in 1963 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 38 objectss, 8 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1580 W. Duval Mine Rd., Green Valley, 85629
  • When was it listed? December 1992
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Arivaca
  • When was it built? 1963
  • National Register reference number. 92001234 - 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

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military Reservation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 369 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined81
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire Districtnot named
10 September 1999Natural1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDUVAL
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictSAHURITA
8 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCRUZ
29 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
26 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military Reservation: 14 past producers, 11 occurrences, 9 producers, 2 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Anamax QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Asbestos ProspectAsbestosOccurrence
Contention MineZinc, Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, ManganeseProducer1920, 1947
Contention MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Copper Glance MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer1916, 1957
Copper Glance MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Copper King MineZinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, GoldProducer1910, 1942
Copper King MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Copper Queen MineCopper, Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Gold, Molybdenum, ZincPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Marcasite, Sphalerite
Copper Queen MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Molybdenum, Tungsten, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Valley, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993HailGreen Valley-Severe thunderstorms dropped large hail and up to 2.00 inches of rain between Green Valley and Amado.
September 1996HailGreen Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pima 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001234 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pima CountyAll 204 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.