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Photograph of Big Springs Ranger Station
Photograph by E. L. Perry; Kaibab National Forest, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Big Springs Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Big Springs Ranger Station is a ranger station located in Kaibab National Forest near Big Springs, Arizona. The ranger station was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934.”

Wikipedia article Big Springs Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino 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 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Along Ryan Rd., Kaibab NF, Big Springs, 86022
  • When was it listed? June 1993
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Depression-Era USDA Forest Service Administrative Complexes in Arizona MPS
  • Census division. Kaibab Plateau
  • National Register reference number. 93000519 - 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Big Springs Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 83,194 acres in total. 154 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
Natural154
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreKaibab National Forestnot named
7 September 1994Naturalunder an acreKaibab National Forestnot named
5 September 1994Natural1.0 acresKaibab National Forestnot named
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestMOQUI
27 September 2014Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestPOLE
26 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestDOVE
26 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestSOUTH
26 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestMOURNING

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Little Mountain Lookout Tree1.1 miles1992
Big Springs Lookout Tower1.1 miles1988
Brow Monument2.8 miles1987
Corral Lake Lookout Tree4.6 miles1992
Fracas Lookout Tree5.9 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000519 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coconino CountyAll 140 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.