BlockFrom the record
One of 46 National Register listings published here for Navajo County · listed in 1998 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Snowflake Townsite Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by 3rd St. N, Stinson, 2nd St. S, and Hulet, Snowflake, 85937
- When was it listed? March 1998
- Category. district
- Census division. Snowflake
- National Register reference number. 98000261 - 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
63 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Snowflake Townsite Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 3 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 | 50 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Taylor Fire Department | not named |
| 30 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | CEDARCYN/E |
| 12 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Taylor Fire Department | 177 |
| 21 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Taylor Fire Department | 159 |
| 16 July 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Taylor Fire Department | 152 |
| 13 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Taylor Fire Department | 148 |
| 10 July 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | CEDAR CAN |
| 6 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Taylor Fire Department | 132 |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Snowflake Townsite Historic District: 2 producers, 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowflake Quarry | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | Gypsum | |
| Snowflake Quarry | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Prospect | ||
| Cottonwood Wash Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
21 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snowflake, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 flash flood, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 3 heavy rain. 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 2024 | Hail | Snowflake | - | One inch diameter hail fell in Snowflake at around 100 PM. |
| July 2021 | Heavy Rain | Snowflake | - | A rain gauge in the town of Snowflake measured 1.97 inches of rain within an hour. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Snowflake | - | The Snowflake-Taylor Police Department reported flash flooding in Snowflake with 6 inches of water over the roadways and houses threatened in the West 1st Street area. |
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Snowflake | - | A thunderstorm with heavy rain caused a flash flood in the normally dry Dry Silver Creek Wash. A video submitted by weather spotter showed the water to be around six feet deep. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Snowflake | - | A confirmed gustnado was on the ground for approximately 4 minutes. |
| July 2015 | Heavy Rain | Snowflake | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the Concho Highway between Snowflake and Concho with water over the road in many spots. |
| September 2011 | Hail | Snowflake | - | A trained spotter in Snowflake reported 1 1/4 inch diameter hail and wind gusts of 35 to 40 MPH from 1416 to 1426 MST. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Snowflake | - | Possible tornado sighted. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Snowflake | - | An area of thunderstorms producing heavy rain (two inches in less than an hour) caused flash flooding over the highway from Snowflake to Concho. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Snowflake | - | One inch diameter hail was reported 7 miles northeast of Snowflake. |
| July 2006 | Flash Flood | Snowflake | - | Two to four feet of water was flowing over the Concho-Snowflake Road. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Snowflake | - | A strong thunderstorm caused flooding in Snowflake. |
| September 2003 | Hail | Snowflake | - | Nickle sized (7/8 inch diameter) hail fell in western Snowflake. |
| August 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Snowflake | - | Sheriff deputy reported seeing multiple descending/ascending funnel clouds west of Snowflake. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Snowflake | - | A tornado touched down about 5 miles north of Snowflake. The tornado was first seen at 935 AM MST then a Sheriff Deputy watched the tornado until it lifted at 1003 AM MST. The tornado remained in a rural area and no damage was reported. |
| September 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Snowflake | - | A tornado was seen 15 miles west of Snowflake. No damage was reported. |
| September 2001 | Heavy Rain | Snowflake | - | Heavy rain caused water to flow over road about one mile east of Snowflake. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Snowflake | - | A weather spotter reported 0.75 inch diameter hail in Snowflake. |
| December 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Snowflake | - | Snowflake police officers and members of the general public reported a funnel cloud. |
| August 1997 | Flood | Snowflake | - | Minor rural road flooding in the Snowflake area. |
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Snowflake | - | no account filed |
Newspapers printed here
2,398 digitised pages1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 524 issues, 2,398 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Snowflake Herald | 1913 to 1969 |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John A. Freeman House | under 500 feet | 1980 |
 | Stinson-Flake House | 0.1 miles | 1982 |
 | John R. Hulet House | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
 | Jesse N. Smith House | 0.2 miles | 1971 |
 | James M. Flake House | 0.2 miles | 1971 |
 | Snowflake Stake Academy Building | 0.2 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 98000261 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.