Desert View Watchtower Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. East Rim Dr., about 17 mi. E of Grand Canyon Village, Desert View, Grand Canyon, 86023
When was it listed? January 1995
Category. district
Census division. Flagstaff
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic, rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 94001503 - 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Desert View Watchtower Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 24 acres in total. 42 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
Natural	42
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
9 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Coconino National Forest	not named
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	STRAIGHT
29 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	ESCALANTE
14 September 1994	Natural	2.5 acres	Coconino National Forest	not named
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	CEDAR
12 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	not named
1 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	ENTRANCE
9 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Grand Canyon National Park	SOLITUDE

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Canyon, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 tornado. 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 1995	Tornado	Grand Canyon	-	Pilot reported seeing a tornado.,,

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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Tusayan Ruins	3.1 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001503 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.