Bearwallow Mountain Lookout Cabins and Shed

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

From the record

“The Bearwallow Mountain Lookout Cabins and Shed are located in the Bearwallow Park near Mogollon, New Mexico. Built in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration, they are one of three New Deal-era buildings in the Gila National Forest, which also include the El Caso Lookout Complex and the Mangas Mountain Lookout Complex.”
Wikipedia article Bearwallow Mountain Lookout Cabins and Shed, 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Bearwallow Lookout Rd., Gila National Forest, Bearwallow Park, 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. 87002473 - 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Bearwallow Mountain Lookout Cabins and Shed between 1992 and 2020, burning about 66,280 acres in total. 163 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	163
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	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 September 2005	Natural	122 acres	Gila National Forest	OCTOBER
28 September 1998	Natural	4,404 acres	Gila National Forest	BS
2 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	RAINY
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	not named
11 September 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Gila National Forest	TOWNSITE
4 August 2003	Natural	5.0 acres	Gila National Forest	WALLOW
3 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	FORK
27 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	DOG

Every fire 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 87002473 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.