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Allentown, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86506. It stands on Whitewater Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Houck quadrangle. It stands 6,145 feet above sea level.

Allentown within Apache County

On record in Allentown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Allentown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,486 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning45
Natural33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCELLTOWER1
25 September 1992Debris and open burning14 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHAWTHORNE
15 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePuerco Valley Fire District222
1 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHOUCK 2
4 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHOUCK3
3 August 2000Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCELLTOWER3
3 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementALLENTOWN
24 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementMP348I-40

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Allentown: 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Geothermal, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Houck Silica Operation PlantSilicaProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Bentonite OccurenceBentoniteOccurrenceSedimentary
Bentonite Pits Near AllentownBentonitePast ProducerSedimentary
Bentonitic Clay DepositBentoniteOccurrence
Lupton Bentonitic Clay DepositBentoniteOccurrenceBentonite

Every working recorded in Apache County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Houck2.6 miles15
Lupton7.0 miles15
Pine Springs10.1 miles15
Sanders10.7 miles15
Chetco10.7 miles15
Oak Springs12.8 miles15
Chambers16.2 miles15
Hunters Point17.9 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AllentownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4960687The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24302. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.