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Photograph of Edward L. Jones House
Photograph by Tony the Marine, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Edward L. Jones House

Built in 1932 (Pueblo Revival Style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Jones House is a historic house at 5555 North Casa Blanca Drive in Paradise Valley, Arizona. It is a 2-acre (0.81 ha) property including a two-story adobe house, an adobe pump house, and an adobe and wood-frame barn.”

Wikipedia article Edward L. Jones House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 467 National Register listings published here for Maricopa County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1932, Pueblo Revival Style architecture.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Jones, Edward L., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 5555 N. Casa Blanca Dr., Paradise Valley, 85253
  • When was it listed? December 1996
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Phoenix
  • When was it built? 1932
  • Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture
  • National Register reference number. 96001474 - 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

819 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 819 fires within 5 miles of Edward L. Jones House between 2009 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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/undetermined783
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural11
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department333916
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133139
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department331861
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-142071
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office241628
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101891
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTempe Fire Department1820352

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Edward L. Jones House: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Copper, Flagstone, Slate, Dimension, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Giacoma ClaimsCopperUnknown
Scottsdale PlantFlagstone, Slate, DimensionProducer
Sealrock GroupMercury, Mica, KyaniteUnknown
Silica OccurrenceSilicaOccurrenceQuartz
Mercury GroupMercuryProspect

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Glaus House0.5 miles2021
Louise Lincoln Kerr House and Studio0.9 miles2010
Neil H. Gates House1.3 miles1986
George Ellis House1.4 miles1999
Kiva Craft Center1.5 miles2022
Sands North Townhouses Historic District1.5 miles2022

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 96001474 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Maricopa CountyAll 467 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.