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Photograph of Martinez Canyon Rockhouse
Photograph by US Bureau of Land Management, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Martinez Canyon Rockhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Martinez Canyon Rock House, which is also known as Jack Miller's Cabin is a Stone cabin located deep within the Santa Rosa Mountains Wilderness Area. The Cabin is a two-room vernacular style dwelling built sometime in the 1930s.”

Wikipedia article Martinez Canyon Rockhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. BLM, Palm Springs-South Coast Resource Area, North Palm Springs
  • When was it listed? December 1999
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Idyllwild
  • National Register reference number. 99001471 - 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Martinez Canyon Rockhouse between 1995 and 2013, burning about 28 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None 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
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Firearms and explosives use1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 August 2010Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestSNAG
16 August 2000Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestSHEEP
13 August 2012Natural11 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictMARTINEZ
1 August 2005Natural2.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictRABBIT
8 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictMARTINEZ
30 July 2011Natural3.8 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictTHIEF
30 July 2011Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestSANTA ROSA 1
1 July 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouthern California AgencyOUTDOOR

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Martinez Canyon Rockhouse: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Asbestos. 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
Unnamed Asbestos OccurrenceAsbestosOccurrence
Dumbell Nos. 1 and 2TungstenOccurrence
Miller Ranch TungstenTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Miller Ranch Tungsten DepositTungstenProspect

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001471 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Riverside CountyAll 90 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.