Green Springs, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Significance: Green Springs is one in a series of line camps within Waring Ranch, a large cattle-grazing operation on the southern edge of the Shivwits Plateau in northern Arizona, adjacent to the Grand Canyon. J. D. Waring assembled the ranch between about 1925 and 1953 and operated it with the assistance of foremen and hired cowhands into the late 1960s. Although Green Springs today comprises just a barbed-wire corral, three metal stock tanks, and scattered wood and metal debris within a beautiful pine forest, it has the longest history of use of any of the sites within the Home Ranch, having been used by Native Americans for hundreds of years before the first sheep and cattle ranchers came to take advantage of its water pockets in the 1870s. Cattle baron Preston Nutter sought ownership of the site in 1900, and controlled it as his own even before it was conveyed by government patent in 1926. Waring bought it sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s. A sawmill operated at the site during the 1950s.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N37
Survey number: HALS AZ-3-C
Building/structure dates: ca. 1925- ca. 1953 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84000781