Reeds Peak Lookout Tower

Built in 1929. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Reeds Peak Lookout Tower, at Squeaky Spring in Gila National Forest, on Reeds Peak, New Mexico, was built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Reeds Peak Lookout Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Grant County · listed in 1988 · category: Structure · built in 1929.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Squeaky Spring, Gila National Forest, Reeds Peak, 88049
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. structure
Also known as. National Forest Fire Lookouts in the Southwestern Region TR
Census division. Pinos Altos
When was it built? 1929
National Register reference number. 87002472 - 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Reeds Peak Lookout Tower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47,338 acres in total. 81 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	81

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
23 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	REEDS
8 August 2011	Natural	60 acres	Gila National Forest	ALDO
4 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	DEER
4 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	STORMY
3 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	CROW
3 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	DIVIDE
2 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	REED
2 August 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Gila National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Grant 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 87002472 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grant County	All 45 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.