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Lee's Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“The Lee's Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch Historic District includes the ranch homesteaded by Mormon pioneer John D. Lee at Lees Ferry, Arizona, and now in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.”
Wikipedia article Lee's Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 140 National Register listings published here for Coconino County · listed in 1997 · category: District.
National Register reference number.97001234- 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 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lee's Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch
between 1994 and 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
16 workings within 5 miles of Lee's Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch: 9 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Bentonite, Semiprecious Gemstone. 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
Marble Canyon, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 23 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.
A USGS stream gauge at Lees Ferry (PLFA3) measured a 1.2 foot rise on the Paria River. Water would likely have been higher upstream closer to the heavier rainfall. Time estimated by radar.
Heavy rain over far northern Arizona and south-central Utah caused several spikes on the Paria River just before it joined the Colorado River upstream from The Grand Canyon. The water flow started to increase (from 4.98 feet) around 100 PM MST on August 13. There were three crests in the flow: 6.24 feet at 500 PM, 704 feet at 800 PM MST on August 13, and 7.66 feet at 300 AM MST on August 14. The flow returned to near normal at around 1100 PM on August 14.
Heavy rain from thunderstorms over southern Utah and far northern Arizona caused flash flooding in the Paria River. The river gauge on the Paria at Lees Ferry (Colorado River) showed a two foot rise between 415 PM and 645 PM.
Heavy rain from thunderstorms moving south over the Paria River basin (including in Utah) caused flash flooding. The river gauge on the Paria River near the Colorado River (Lees Ferry) measured a rise in water the level 4.8 feet at 8:15 PM MST to 6.6 feet at 11:00 PM.
Heavy rain in Utah caused a flash flood in the Paria River that drains into Arizona and the Colorado River near Lees Ferry. The river gauge near on the Paria River near the Colorado River peaked at 6.8 feet at 600 AM.
Heavy rain over far south-central Utah and far north-central Arizona resulted in a flash flood through Paria Canyon. The river gauge near the Colorado River showed almost a 4 foot rise.
Flood waters in the Paria River reached the river gauge near the Colorado River at 0500 and rose 3.3 feet in 15 minutes. The flood waters likely traveled down this slot canyon from Utah through the early morning hours.
Monsoon moisture increasing from the south brought thunderstorms across northern Arizona. Heavy Rain in Utah produced flash flooding in the Paria River that flows into Arizona and the gauge near Lees Ferry rose from 4.4 feet to 6.3 feet at 4:30 AM MST.
The Paria River gauge at Lees Ferry showed a 4 foot rise between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM MST. The Paria River drainage originates in Utah and flows into the Colorado River near Lees Ferry.
The Paria River Gauge at Lees Ferry showed a 3 foot rise at 645 AM. It is estimated that this flood crest entered Arizona (from thunderstorms in Utah) around 345 AM.
Heavy rain in Utah caused a flash flood that flowed into Arizona in the Paria River. The gauge at Lees Ferry (Colorado River) reached a peak flow of 1,436 CFS at 430 AM MST in a normally drive river bed. The flood took several hours to travel from the Utah border to the gauge.
Heavy rain over Utah caused flash flooding in Paria Canyon that flowed into Arizona. The River gauge on the Paria River (just before the confluence with the Colorado River near Lees Ferry) showed at 2 foot rise (6.16 foot stage).
Heavy rain from thunderstorms caused flash flooding in the Paria River. The USGS gauge on the Paria River near Lees Ferry rose over four feet to over 1500 CFS.
Heavy rain in Utah created a flash flood that flowed through the Paria River from Utah to the Colorado River in Arizona. The stream gauge near the Colorado River indicated a two foot rise in the normally dry river bed.
Heavy rain in Utah caused the Paria River to flash flood as it flowed south into Arizona and into the Colorado River. The Paria River was estimated to rise more than 2 feet at the Utah Arizona border in around 15 minutes.
The observed rise in the Paria River gauge at Highway 89 (in Utah) was around 745 PM MST on August 4th. The crest reached the Lees Ferry gauge at around 415 AM on August 5th. Flash Flood levels in excess of 5 feet were estimated to have been in the Arizona section of the Paria River from 11 PM on August 4th through 7 AM on August 5th before entering the Colorado River.
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
3 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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