Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Portal Ranger Station, also known as Portal Work Station, is located in Cave Creek Canyon, in the eastern Chiricahua Mountains, in Coronado National Forest near Portal, southeastern Arizona.”
Wikipedia article Portal Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 76 National Register listings published here for Cochise County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.
Also known as. Depression-Era USDA Forest Service Administrative Complexes in Arizona MPS
Census division. Elfrida
National Register reference number.93000517- 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
36 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Portal Ranger Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 602 acres in total. 17 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
Natural
17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Recreation and ceremony
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Debris and open burning
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Smoking
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
29 September 2016
Natural
under an acre
Coronado National Forest
CAVE CREEK SOUTH
23 September 1992
Natural
5.0 acres
Coronado National Forest
METHODIST
22 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4.5 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District
BIRD
25 August 2011
Natural
under an acre
Gila District Office
LIMESTONE
19 August 1994
Natural
under an acre
Coronado National Forest
GNAT
9 July 2002
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
PROPANE
9 July 1996
Natural
under an acre
Coronado National Forest
SULPHUR
8 July 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
28 workings within 5 miles of Portal Ranger Station: 17 past producers, 8 prospects, 3 producers.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Tungsten, Gold, Lead, Silver. 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
Portal, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Two to four inches of rain in 3 hours in the southern Chiricahua Mountains caused flash flooding of streams over and west of the mountains. Two motorists in one vehicle were stuck in floodwaters east of McNeal on Davis Rd. near milepost 30. An elderly man attempted to drive through waters to rescue them when his vehicle was swept downstream. He was rescued but not before suffering hypothermia from being in the cold water.
Estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph occurred southeast of Portal. A Desert Research Institute sensor at Rodeo, NM observed a gust to 60 mph at 1900MST.
Three inches of rain in themountains near Portal caused creeks in the area to rise rapidly. A campground became flooded forcing the evacuation of several campers.
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
4 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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