BlockApache, Arizona
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Elfrida census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85632. It lies near Jack Wood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Apache quadrangle. It stands 4,383 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1917 USGS Chiricahua quadrangle1:125000
- 1919 USGS Chiricahua quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1940 USGS Apache quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Apache quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS Apache quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Chiricahua Peak quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Apache quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
2 photographs, 2018Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
25 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Apache between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,216 acres in total. 14 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 | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 August 1994 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Coronado National Forest | PRICE |
| 10 August 2020 | Natural | 4,864 acres | Coronado National Forest | KLAUS |
| 27 July 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | OWL DEER |
| 26 July 2009 | Natural | 40 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SKELETON CANYON |
| 10 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SIMON |
| 9 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District | GERONIMO |
| 9 June 2016 | Natural | 6.6 acres | Coronado National Forest | JACKWOOD |
| 9 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | BOBCAT |
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apache in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Apache | $3,000 | Between 2 and 3 inches of rain in one hour caused flash flooding in Rucker Canyon. This forced closure of Rucker Canyon road and washed a trailer and a tent with two people in it downstream. Five people were rescued in all. In Elfrida, Mormon road was closed between Jefferson and Whitewater School Roads. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chiricahua | 8.9 miles | 20 | |
| Portal | 15.4 miles | 22 | |
| Bernardino (historical) | 15.7 miles | 19 | |
| Paradise | 17.5 miles | 22 | |
| Galeyville | 18.5 miles | 22 | |
| Cazador | 20.6 miles | 20 | |
| Hilltop | 22.4 miles | 21 | |
| Taylor Place | 28.5 miles | 18 |
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 Apache | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22058627 | The 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 24304. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.