Mogollon Baldy Lookout Cabin

Built in 1923. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Mogollon Baldy Lookout Cabin, in Gila National Forest on Mogollon Baldy peak, in New Mexico, was built in 1923. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Mogollon Baldy Lookout Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Catron County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1923.

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. Gila National Forest, Mogollon Baldy Peak, 88039
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Reserve
When was it built? 1923
National Register reference number. 87002470 - 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Mogollon Baldy Lookout Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78,051 acres in total. 129 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
Natural	129
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	CORRAL
9 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
10 September 2000	Natural	100 acres	Gila National Forest	TICKLE
8 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	SOUTH FORK
8 August 1995	Natural	15 acres	Gila National Forest	TOPPER
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	JUDY
6 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	HUMMING
5 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	LOWER

Every fire recorded in Catron County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mogollon Baldy Lookout Cabin: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
	Point of Rock Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
	Silver Tip Group	Gold, Silver	Unknown

Every working recorded in Catron 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002470 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Catron County	All 7 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.