Cave Springs Cowboy Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Cave Springs Cowboy Camp was a line camp operated by the Scorup-Sommerville Cattle Company in what would become Canyonlands National Park, Utah. The site consists of a cave-like shelter under a rock overhang on the side of a small canyon.”
Wikipedia article Cave Springs Cowboy Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1988 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Cave Springs vicintiy, Moab, 84532
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. site
Also known as. Canyonlands National Park MRA
Census division. Blanding
National Register reference number. 88001233 - 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Cave Springs Cowboy Camp between 1992 and 2015, burning about 43 acres in total. 29 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	29
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
19 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	SQUAW FLAT
13 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	CRYPTO
1 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	COOVERLOOK
8 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	SQUAW
6 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	LEAVE IT
31 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	OUTPOST
3 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	COYOTE
29 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Canyonlands National Park	SQUAW CANYON

Every fire recorded in San Juan 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 Cave Springs Cowboy Camp: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	Unknown	Iron	Occurrence	Surface
	Unknown	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other 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
	Lost Canyon Cowboy Camp	1.6 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001233 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 23 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.