BlockFrom the record
One of 51 National Register listings published here for Santa Cruz County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Rojas House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 21 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Roughly bounded by Tubac and Plaza Rds. and Presidio Dr., Tubac, 85646
- When was it listed? October 1994
- Category. building
- Also known as. Tubac Settlement MPS
- Census division. Nogales
- National Register reference number. 94001195 - 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
32 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Rojas House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 282 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2003 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SPARKLETT |
| 15 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Coronado National Forest | not named |
| 14 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tubac Fire District | 180936 |
| 13 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | GREEN VALLEY |
| 12 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tubac Fire District | 180923 |
| 1 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | TOP VIEW |
| 6 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Tubac Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 27 June 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rojas House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Gold, Copper | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tubac, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Hail | Tubac | $30,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tubac | $5,000 | Several power poles were blown down as well as a fence in Tubac due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tubac | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed two Chilean mesquite trees and uprooted a Ponderosa pine tree at the Tubac Presidio Historic Park. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tubac | $500 | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree in Tubac Barrio. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tubac | $500 | A tin roof was blown off a shed. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Tubac | - | Spotter report of hail with some pieces as big as quarters along interstate 19 near Tubac. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tubac | - | A large tree was uprooted by a strong thunderstorm wind gust and blocked a road in Tubac. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Tubac | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Tubac | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
128 digitised pages1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 32 issues, 128 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Weekly Arizonian | 1859 to 18?? |
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
4 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Tubac Presidio | under 500 feet | 1970 |
 | Old Tubac Schoolhouse | under 500 feet | 1970 |
 | Tumacacori National Monument | 2.9 miles | 1966 |
 | Tumacacori Museum | 3.0 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 94001195 in Record Group 79. |
| Santa Cruz County | All 51 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.