List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona

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This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona. There are 40 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Arizona, counting Hoover Dam which spans from Nevada and is listed in Nevada by the National Park Service, and Yuma Crossing And Associated Sites, which is listed by the NPS in Arizona, but also overlaps into California. Following is a complete list:

[edit] Current NHLs

[1]	Landmark name[2]	Image	Date designated[2]	Locality[2][3]	County[2]	Description[4]
1	Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 Titan II ICBM Site 571-7		19 Apr 1994	Green Valley 31°54′05″N 110°59′54″W / 31.901339435, -110.998413644 (Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military Reservation)	Pima	Last surviving Titan II missile launch facility, inactive.
2	Awatovi Ruins	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Keams Canyon	Navajo	Archaeological site.
3	Casa Malpais Site	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Springerville	Apache	Archaeological site.
4	Mary Jane Colter Buildings		28 May 1987	South Rim locations in Grand Canyon National Park	Coconino	Includes: Desert View Watchtower Hermit's Rest Hopi House The Lookout
5	Desert Laboratory	image pending	21 Dec 1965	Tucson 32°13′31″N 111°00′09″W / 32.225278, -111.0025 (Desert Laboratory)	Pima	Historic desert-ecology laboratory on Tumamoc Hill.
6	Double Adobe Site	image pending	20 Jan 1961	Douglas	Cochise	Archaeological site.
7	El Tovar Hotel		28 May 1987	Grand Canyon Village 36°03′21″N 112°08′13″W / 36.0557044314, -112.136999169 (El Tovar Hotel)	Coconino	Classic lodge at South Rim of Grand Canyon.
8	Fort Bowie National Historic Site		19 Dec 1960	Bowie	Cochise	Commemorates the conflict between the Chiricahua Apaches and the United States military and preserves the ruins of Fort Bowie.
9	Fort Huachuca	image pending	11 May 1976	Sierra Vista	Cochise	Commemorates "Buffalo Soldiers"
10	Gatlin Site	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Gila Bend	Maricopa	Archaeological site.
11	Grand Canyon Depot		28 May 1987	Grand Canyon Village 36°03′16″N 112°08′11″W / 36.0542952206, -112.136346065 (Grand Canyon Railroad Station)	Coconino	Railway station
12	Grand Canyon Lodge		28 May 1987	North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park	Coconino	Lodge at Bright Angel Point, on North Rim of Grand Canyon.
13	Grand Canyon Park Operations Building	image pending	28 May 1987	Grand Canyon Village 36°03′12″N 112°08′13″W / 36.0532260853, -112.136908007 (Grand Canyon Park Operations Building)	Coconino	National Park Service building built in 1929 and designed to blend harmoniously with the natural surroundings.
14	Grand Canyon Power House	image pending	28 May 1987	Grand Canyon Village 36°03′14″N 112°08′24″W / 36.0538731493, -112.139970434 (Grand Canyon Power House)	Coconino	Form disguises function.
15	Grand Canyon Village	image pending	18 Feb 1987	Grand Canyon Village	Coconino	Planned town.
16	Hoover Dam		20 Aug 1985	Boulder City, Nevada	Mohave, AZ and Clark, NV	Historic dam, power plant and water-storage facility.
17	Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site		12 Dec 1960	Ganado	Apache	Meeting ground of two cultures, the Navajo and the settlers.
18	Jerome Historic District	image pending	13 Nov 1966	Jerome	Yavapai	Copper mining town
19	Kinishba Ruins	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Whiteriver	Gila	Large pueblo ruin.
20	Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site	image pending	28 May 1967	Hereford	Cochise	Clovis culture mammoth butchering site.
21	Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi		21 Dec 1965	Yuma	Santa Cruz	Spanish mission.
22	Lowell Observatory		21 Dec 1965	Flagstaff	Coconino	Observatory where Pluto was discovered.
23	C. Hart Merriam Base Camp Site	image pending	21 Dec 1965	Flagstaff	Coconino	Work site of C. Hart Merriam, path-breaking eco-biologist.
24	Navajo Nation Council Chamber	image pending	18 Aug 2004	Window Rock	Apache	Center of government for Navajo Indian Nation.
25	Old Oraibi		19 Jul 1964	Oraibi	Navajo	Hisoric Hopi village.
26	Painted Desert Inn		28 May 1987	Petrified Forest National Park 35°05′02″N 109°47′20″W / 35.0837366507, -109.788845035 (Painted Desert Inn)	Navajo	Lodge.
27	Phelps Dodge General Office Building	image pending	04 May 1983	Bisbee 31°26′25″N 109°54′41″W / 31.4401856866, -109.911260835 (Phelps Dodge General Office Building)	Cochise	Historic building.
28	Point of Pines Sites	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Morenci	Graham	Archaeological sites.
29	Pueblo Grande Ruin and Irrigation Sites	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Phoenix	Maricopa	Pueblo Grande Ruin and adjacent Hohokam-Pima Irrigation Sites
30	San Bernardino Ranch	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Douglas	Cochise	Historic cattle ranch.
31	San Cayetano de Calabazas		14 Dec 1990	Nogales	Santa Cruz	Spanish mission, also known as Calabasas
32	San Xavier del Bac Mission		09 Oct 1960	Tucson	Pima	Spanish mission.
33	Sierra Bonita Ranch	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Bonita 32°34′00″N 109°58′00″W / 32.583333, -109.966667 (Sierra Bonita Ranch)	Cochise and Graham
34	Snaketown Hohokam Pima National Monument	image pending	29 Apr 1964		Pinal	Archaeological remains of the Hohokam culture.
35	Taliesin West		20 May 1982	Scottsdale 33°36′11″N 111°50′38″W / 33.603111, -111.843781 (Taliesin West)	Maricopa	Summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright
36	Tombstone Historic District		04 Jul 1961	Tombstone	Cochise	Classic Western mining boomtown.
37	Tumacacori Museum		28 May 1987	Tumacacori 31°33′58″N 111°03′01″W / 31.5660648509, -111.050401755 (Tumacacori Museum)	Santa Cruz	Museum to Spanish missions that itself is an architectural landmark.
38	Ventana Cave	image pending	20 Jan 1964	Santa Rosa	Pima	Archaeological site
39	Winona Site	image pending	19 Jul 1964	Winona	Coconino	Archaeological site
40	Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites	image pending	13 Nov 1966	Yuma, AZ and Winterhaven, CA	Yuma County, AZ and Imperial County, CA	Archaeological and hisorical sites

[edit] Historic areas of the NPS in Arizona

National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, some National Monuments, and certain other areas listed in the National Park system are historic landmarks of national importance that are highly protected already, often before the inauguration of the NHL program in 1960, and are then often not also named NHLs per se. There are fourteen of these in Arizona. The National Park Service lists these fourteen together with the NHLs in the state,^[5]

Hohokam Pima National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, and Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site are also NHLs and are listed above. The other 11 are:

	Landmark name	Image	Date established[6]	Location	County	Description
1	Canyon de Chelly National Monument			Chinle	Apache	Navajo Tribal Trust Land preserving artifacts of indigenous peoples.
2	Casa Grande Ruins National Monument			Coolidge	Pinal	Ruins of Hohokam structures. A four story structure is the "casa grande" or "big house". Sheltered since 1932 under a large pavillion built to preserve the ruins.
3	Coronado National Memorial			Sierra Vista	Cochise	Commemorates the first organized expedition into the Southwest by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado.
4	Montezuma Castle National Monument			Flagstaff	Yavapai	well-preserved cliff dwellings built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinagua people around 1400 AD.
5	Navajo National Monument			Window Rock	Navajo	Preserves three of the most intact cliff dwellings of the ancestral puebloan people (Hisatsinom).
6	Pipe Spring National Monument	image pending		Fredonia, Arizona 36°51′45″N 112°43′46″W / 36.8625, -112.729444 (Pipe Spring National Monument)	Mohave	Discovered and named in 1856 by Latter-day Saint missionaries. Mormon cattle ranching operation established in 1860's. Protective fort was built in 1872. Way station for travellers. Refuge for polygamist wives.
7	Tonto National Monument			Phoenix	Gila	Well-preserved cliff dwellings were occupied by the Salado culture during the 13th, 14th, and early 15th centuries.
8	Tumacacori National Historical Park			Nogales	Santa Cruz	Includes 2 missions and a museum that are NHLs listed above, plus a mission that is not an NHL.
9	Tuzigoot National Monument			Flagstaff	Yavapai
10	Walnut Canyon National Monument			Flagstaff	Coconino
11	Wupatki National Monument			Flagstaff	Coconino

[edit] See also

• List of Registered Historic Places in Arizona
• List of National Historic Landmarks by state

[edit] External map of all sites

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate the National Monuments, National Historic Sites, National Historic Landmark Districts and other higher designations from other NHL buildings, structures, sites or objects.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} National Park Service (November 2007), National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State, <http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/LIST07.pdf>. Retrieved on 20 May 2007 
3. ^ National Park Service. National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database. Retrieved on 2007-08-14.
4. ^ National Park Service. National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database. Retrieved on various dates.
5. ^ These are listed on p.110 of "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State", November 2007 version.
6. ^ Date of listing as National Historic Site or similar designation, from various sources in articles indexed.

[edit] External links

• National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State—Arizona (40). National Park Service. Retrieved on 2007-11-07.
• National Historic Landmarks Program, at National Park Service

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