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Colter Ranch Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
From the record
“The Colter Ranch Historic District consists of twelve buildings in a rural setting near Eagar, Arizona. The site is located in the Amity Valley, which itself is part of Round Valley ; the Little Colorado River runs along the one side of the district.”
Wikipedia article Colter Ranch Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Apache County · listed in 1993 · category: District.
National Register reference number.93000626- 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
200 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Colter Ranch Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,892 acres in total. 40 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
Natural
40
Recreation and ceremony
38
Debris and open burning
28
Arson/incendiarism
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
10 September 2002
Natural
under an acre
Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
WATER
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 2008
Natural
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
KNOLL
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
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Colter Ranch Historic District: 4 past producers, 4 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
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.
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.
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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