Eagar Townsite Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“Eagar Townsite Historic District is a section of the town of Eagar, Arizona which has been designated a National Historic Place. Sitting on roughly 54 acres, the site contains 37 structures, 21 of which have historical significance.”
Wikipedia article Eagar Townsite Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Central Ave., Main St., 1st Ave. and Eagar St., 2nd Ave and Harless St., 3rd Ave. and Eagar St., Eagar, 85925
When was it listed? July 1993
Category. district
Census division. Eagar-Springerville
National Register reference number. 93000625 - 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

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Eagar Townsite Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,268 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	76
Recreation and ceremony	27
Debris and open burning	27
Natural	21
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
23 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Eagar Fire Department	not named
18 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	FLAT
7 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	GRAPEVINE
7 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
6 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	GRAPE VINE
5 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
25 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
15 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Eagar Townsite Historic District: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Big Ditch Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Cinder Pits	Pumice	Unknown
Coon Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Round Mountain Cinder Deposit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagar, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 2019	Hail	Eagar	$5,000	Hail almost the size of a quarter fell from 1120 to 1140 AM. This storm removed leaves off trees and knocked down branches and fruit around town.
July 2013	Heavy Rain	Eagar	-	Heavy rain caused County Road 1126 near Greer to be come impassible due to heavy runoff. The report was received at 655 PM MST.

Every storm recorded in Apache 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

3 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
Eagar School	0.4 miles	1993
Colter Ranch Historic District	1.8 miles	1993
Water Canyon Administrative Site	3.3 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93000625 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Apache County	All 24 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.