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Sycamore Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Sycamore Ranger Station, also known as Sycamore Work Center and as Sycamore Administrative Site, in Prescott National Forest near Camp Verde, Arizona was built in 1940 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its architecture, which includes vernacular, national(?), and other styles.”

Wikipedia article Sycamore Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 127 National Register listings published here for Yavapai 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Forest Rd. 68F SW of Camp Verde, Prescott NF, Camp Verde, 86333
  • When was it listed? June 1993
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Depression-Era USDA Forest Service Administrative Complexes in Arizona MPS
  • Census division. Cordes Lakes-Mayer
  • National Register reference number. 93000523 - 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Sycamore Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,821 acres in total. 23 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
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2001Natural25 acresPrescott National ForestCEMETARY
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMayer Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
31 August 2009Natural10 acresPrescott National ForestESTLER
29 August 2020Naturalunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeBLACK HILL
29 August 2020Natural1.4 acresPhoenix District OfficeCARSON
25 August 2020Natural277 acresPrescott National ForestCACTUS
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMayer Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
18 August 2020Natural68 acresPrescott National ForestSYCAMORE

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this property

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Verde, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Flash FloodCamp Verde$140,000Fifteen residents were rescued from homes in Verde Lakes Estates. Seven homes had significant flood damage. The flooding came form a tributary of West Clear Creek.
August 1997Flash FloodCamp Verde$5,000Residental outbuildings flooded when a normally dry wash overflowed. Up to a foot of water washed over several rural roads in low lying areas in and near Camp Verde.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde$5,000A thunderstorm caused wind damage to eastern sections of Camp Verde. One report was received from the public of a tornado, but no witnesses could be found to verify this. We concluded the damage was caused by gusty winds, but no winds speeds were recorded. Several trailers were moved off their foundations in the White Hills Trailer Park. On Hardy Lane branches broke off trees and were scattered over the road. In the Sierra Verde area an older barn lost part of its roof.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde$1,000A weather spotter reported down power lines due to thunderstorm outflow winds.
September 2025HailCamp Verde-Public reported, via Facebook, hail up to the size of quarters.
July 2018HailCamp Verde-One inch diameter hail was reported in Camp Verde. The hail put holes in solar panels at the US National Forest District Office.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-A trained weather spotter reported an estimated wind gust to 60 MPH.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-The Verde RAWS in Camp Verde recorded a peak wind gust of 64 MPH between 1005 PM MST and 1105 PM MST. The storm also produced 0.78 inches of rain in the same time period.
August 2013Heavy RainCamp Verde-State Highway 260 was temporarily closed because there was too much water on the roadway.
July 2007HailCamp Verde-Quarter sized (1 inch in diameter) fell in Camp Verde.
July 2007HailCamp Verde-A severe thunderstorm produced 1 inch diameter hail in Camp Verde.
July 2007Flash FloodCamp Verde-One to two feet of water covered Lacy Lane in Camp Verde.
March 2005Funnel CloudCamp Verde-Several people reported seeing a funnel cloud northwest of Cottonwood in the Verde Valley.
August 2005HailCamp Verde-Quarter (1 inch diameter) to golf ball (1 3/4 inch diameter) sized hail fell in Camp Verde for up to 10 minutes.
August 2005HailCamp Verde-3/4 inch diameter hail was reported in Camp Verde.
August 2003Tornado (F0)Camp Verde-A tornado touched down five miles southeast of Camp Verde. 60 MPH wind was also reported in Camp Verde.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-A garage roof was blown onto power poles. The power line was damaged.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-Trees were blown down and a carport roof was blown off in Verde Valley.
July 2000HailCamp Verde-Storm spotter reported dime to nickel sized hail and wind gusts to 35 mph.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-Yavapai County officials reported that thunderstorm wind had knocked down power lines.
July 1998HailCamp Verde-A weather spotter reported 1.25 inch diameter hail in Camp Verde.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-Single thunderstorm gust to 59 kts/68 mph near Beaver Creek Country Club in Lake Montezuma.
October 1997FloodCamp Verde-Heavy thunderstorm rains flooded several roads in Camp Verde, AZ causing over a dozen traffic accidents.
July 2006Heavy RainCamp Verde-no account filed
July 2002HailCamp Verde-no account filed
July 2001HailCamp Verde-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-no account filed
August 2000Funnel CloudCamp Verde-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindCamp Verde-no account filed
July 1996HailCamp Verde-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yavapai 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000523 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yavapai CountyAll 127 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.
  • 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.