The Globe Ranger Station is the principal office of the Globe Ranger District of the

Tonto National Forest The Tonto National Forest, encompassing , is the largest of the six national forests in Arizona and is the ninth largest national forest in the United States. The forest has diverse scenery, with elevations ranging from 1,400 feet (427 m) in ...

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. It is located south of downtown

Globe, Arizona Globe ( "Place of Metal") is a city in and the county seat of Gila County, Arizona, Gila County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 7,249. Globe was founded c. 1875 as a mini ...

.Ranger Districts
Tonto National Forest website The property is listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

as the Pinal Ranger Station, built in 1934 by the

Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government unemployment, work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was ...

. It was listed on the National Register in 1993 for its Spanish style architecture and its role in the

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's response to the

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. It was designed by architects of the USDA Forest Service. The listing included three

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on which served as institutional housing and government office space. The Globe Ranger District, which is located north, south, and west of the city of Globe, has an area of approximately 450,000 acres (182,000 ha). Vegetation types include

desert A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About one-third of the la ...

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, and pinyon-

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. The Globe Ranger Station is the home base for the Globe Hotshots, an interagency hotshot fire suppression crew.http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/people/hotshots/globe/, U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management website

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{{National Register of Historic Places United States Forest Service ranger stations Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Arizona Government buildings completed in 1934 Buildings and structures in Gila County, Arizona 1934 establishments in Arizona National Register of Historic Places in Gila County, Arizona