Abner Ellsworth House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ellsworth, Abner, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 260 N. 8th St., Show Low, 85901
When was it listed? April 1997
Category. building
Census division. Snowflake
National Register reference number. 97000368 - 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

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Abner Ellsworth House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 151 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 9 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	107
Recreation and ceremony	66
Natural	46
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tombstone Volunteer Fire Department	NOT NAMED
8 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	BOUNDARY
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tombstone Volunteer Fire Department	NOT NAMED
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	153720
26 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BAGNAL 3
23 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BAGNAL 2
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tombstone Volunteer Fire Department	NOT NAMED

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Abner Ellsworth House: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Coal. 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
Apache Coal	Coal, Iron	Past Producer
First Knoll Pit - Lakeside	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Owens Pit	Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Linden Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Reidhead Sand & Rock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Owens Pit	Pumice	Past Producer
Owens Pit	Pumice	Unknown
Second Knoll Pit	Pumice	Producer
Second Knoll Pit-East Si	Pumice	Producer

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Show Low, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 flood, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2013	Lightning	Show Low	1 killed	A 54 year old man was walking along the south edge of Scott Reservoir with two other people when he was stuck and killed by lightning.
August 2004	Lightning	Show Low	1 hurt	A woman was hit by lightning outside her home in Show Low. She was knocked unconscious for a short time and couldn't feel her legs when she regained consciousness. She was taken to the hospital for testing. She was able to return to work a few days later even though she still has some pain in her legs and back.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Show Low	-	Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused flooding on State Route 260 on the south side of Show Low. A car got stuck in the high water. Flooding was also reported east of Show Low near Highway 60 and Little Mormon Lake Road meet and on to the Second Knoll Shooting Range (Forest Road 206).
August 2018	Hail	Show Low	-	One inch diameter hail was reported in the west part of Show Low.
September 2016	Hail	Show Low	-	Trained spotters reported one half inch to one inch diameter hail covering the ground between 2 and 8 miles north of Show Low.
July 2014	Heavy Rain	Show Low	-	A thunderstorm produced 1.75 inches of rain in about an hour at White Mountain Lake. Some small debris washed onto roads.
July 2008	Hail	Show Low	-	A weather spotter 8 miles southwest of Show Low reported 3/4 inch diameter hail.
August 2006	Flash Flood	Show Low	-	Flash flooding caused the closure of east bound Highway 60 about 7 miles east of Show Low. Debris was cleared from the road and it was reopened by 520 PM.
August 2001	Funnel Cloud	Show Low	-	A funnel cloud was reported by an employee at a Show Low radio station. The funnel cloud extended half way to the ground near Porter Mountain.
August 1997	Flood	Show Low	-	Minor flooding in the Show Low area.
August 1996	Flood	Show Low	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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
	Quinn Cabin	6.8 miles	2026

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000368 in Record Group 79.
Navajo County	All 46 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.