Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“Canelo Ranger Station, also known as Canelo Work Station, is a historic ranger station in the Coronado National Forest, within Santa Cruz County of southern Arizona. It is located in the ghost town of Canelo, within a small valley between the Canelo Hills on the west and the northern Huachuca Mountains on the east.”
Wikipedia article Canelo Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 51 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Also known as. Depression-Era USDA Forest Service Administrative Complexes in Arizona MPS
Census division. Patagonia
Architectural style. bungalow
National Register reference number.93000513- 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
102 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Canelo Ranger Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,188 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined
39
Natural
33
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Recreation and ceremony
9
Smoking
5
Debris and open burning
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
17 workings within 5 miles of Canelo Ranger Station: 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Diatomite, Gold, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Canelo, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire, 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.
One inch of rain in less than 1 hour caused flash flooding near State Route 83 in the Lyle and Brushy Canyon areas south of Canelo. Two occupants of a pickup truck were rescued from three feet of flowing water.
Thunderstorm outflows from severe storms in Cochise County produced a peak wind gust of 77 mph at Canelo RAWS at 2030MST, 60 MPH at a CWOP station near Patagonia and 59 mph at KOLS Nogales Airport at 2044MST.
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
2 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.
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.
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