Moqui Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Moqui Ranger Station in Kaibab National Forest near Tusayan, Arizona, also known as Tusayan Ranger Station, was built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its architecture, which includes Bungalow architecture, Rustic architecture, vernacular and other styling.”
Wikipedia article Moqui 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 6 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off US 180 N of Tusayan, Kaibab NF, Tusayan, 86023
When was it listed? June 1993
Category. building
Also known as. Depression-Era USDA Forest Service Administrative Complexes in Arizona MPS
Census division. Williams
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 93000521 - 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

589 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 589 fires within 5 miles of Moqui Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,128 acres in total. 223 started naturally. 16 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
Recreation and ceremony	255
Natural	223
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	13
Debris and open burning	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	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
9 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	VILLAGE
8 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	not named
8 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	CHARLEY
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	APACHE
7 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	LONG
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Kaibab National Forest	TEN
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	E-3
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	P

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Moqui Ranger Station: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Eastern Star Mine	Copper	Past Producer	Vein
	Southern Star Mine	Copper	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tusayan, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Flash Flood	Tusayan	$7,000,000	Between 1 to 2.5 inches of rain fell in around two hours just east and northeast of the town of Tusayan and the South Entrance to The Grand Canyon National Park. This caused significant flooding of homes homes, buildings, and cars. Highway 64 into the GCNP was closed, shelter in place orders were put into place, and children were stuck in their school because they could not safely get home.
September 2013	Heavy Rain	Tusayan	-	Thunderstorms produced about one inch of rain in under an hour. This created some flooding problems in the Grand Canyon Village and below the Rim. One range guage in the area reported 0.92 inches of rain in 40 minutes. Another guage in the area reported 1.85 inches of rain between 135 PM and 245 PM.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Tusayan	-	Between 1.22 and 2.50 inches of rain fell across the South Rim of the Grand Canyon westward to Supai Village in 5 to 8 hours. Rockslides were reported on Bright Angel Trail.
August 2008	Hail	Tusayan	-	Hail slightly larger than a nickel (7/8 inch diameter) was reported a the Grand Canyon Airport.
September 1995	Hail	Tusayan	-	A thunderstorm piled up hail two inches deep on State Highway 64 creating icy road conditions and caused several collisions. Three-quarter inch hail up to two inches deep was reported in the same area.

Every storm 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

6 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
Tusayan Lookout Tree	1.5 miles	1992
Horace M. Albright Training Center	4.4 miles	2013
Water Reclamation Plant	4.6 miles	1974
Grand Canyon Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)	4.7 miles	1995
Grand Canyon Park Operations Building	4.7 miles	1987
Ranger's Dormitory	4.7 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000521 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Coconino County	All 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.
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.