Water Canyon Administrative Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Water Canyon Administrative Site, in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Springerville, Arizona, United States, was built in 1933. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its architecture, which is Bungalow/Craftsman style.”
Wikipedia article Water Canyon Administrative Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Forest Rd. 285 S of Springerville, Apache--Sitgreaves NF, Springerville, 85925
When was it listed? June 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Depression-Era USDA Forest Service Administrative Complexes in Arizona MPS
Census division. Eagar-Springerville
National Register reference number. 93000511 - 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

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Water Canyon Administrative Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,982 acres in total. 76 started naturally. 5 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	76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Recreation and ceremony	49
Debris and open burning	26
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eagar Fire Department	not named
18 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	FLAT
10 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WATER
7 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	GRAPEVINE
7 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	GRAPE VINE
5 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
5 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WHITE MOUNTAIN

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Water Canyon Administrative Site: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Big Ditch Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pits	Pumice	Unknown
Mexican Hay Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Round Mountain Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springerville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 1 wildfire, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Springerville	-	Public reported via social media a video of a landspout tornado out in a rural field about 5 miles NNE of Springerville. No damage was reported. Tornado was rated EFU, but could be an EF0. No damage survey was done. Path is approximated.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Springerville	-	Heavy rainfall caused flooding in Eagar and Springerville. Significant runoff covered roads with water and debris.
May 2002	Wildfire	Springerville	-	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.

Listed places nearby

3 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
Eagar School	2.9 miles	1993
Colter Ranch Historic District	3.3 miles	1993
Eagar Townsite Historic District	3.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000511 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.