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Arizona Rancho
Built in 1881 (Pueblo Revival Style architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“The Arizona Rancho, also known as the Higgins House, Brunswick Hotel and Arizona Hotel, is a former hotel in Holbrook, Arizona, United States. It was originally built between 1881 and 1883 as a residence, the expanded as a boarding house, a hotel, and finally as a motel.”
Wikipedia article Arizona Rancho, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1881, Pueblo Revival Style architecture.
Architectural style. Pueblo Revival Style architecture
National Register reference number.97001210- 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
7 since 1996
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Arizona Rancho
between 1996 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
6
Arson/incendiarism
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
21 July 2014
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
BROOK
6 June 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Joseph City Fire District
109
8 March 1996
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
not named
18 March 1999
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
ROMERO
7 February 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
OBED
10 February 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast District
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Arizona Rancho: 3 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Holbrook, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 4 tornado, 1 flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Very heavy rain caused flooding along and over Highway 377 about 10 miles south-southwest of Holbrook. The water knocked over barged wire right of way fencing. Cars were backed up along the highway because of the flooding.
A tornado was seen by an off duty NWS employee three miles south of Holbrook near the intersection of Routes 377 and 77. The tornado was on the ground for 5 minutes.
3 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 1,544 issues,
9,179 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.
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.
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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