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Ash Fork, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Ash Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86320. The Survey maps it on the Ash Fork quadrangle. 361 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,161 feet above sea level.

Ash Fork within Yavapai County

On record in Ash Fork

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Ash Fork fell from 457 to 361 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000457
2010396-61 (-13%)
2020361-35 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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.

Photographs

6 photographs, 1943 to 2018

Taken 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.

Ash Fork, Arizona. Tank cars in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard
Ash Fork, Arizona. Tank cars in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
[A freight train on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF RR) chugs across a lonely stretch of Arizona's high desert between Seligman and Ash Fork in Yavapai County
[A freight train on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF RR) chugs across a lonely stretch of Arizona's high desert between Seligman and Ash Fork in Yavapai County
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Ash Fork (vicinity), Arizona. Passing an eastbound freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
Ash Fork (vicinity), Arizona. Passing an eastbound freight train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman, Arizona
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
Ash Fork, Arizona. A brakeman closing the retainer on a car in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard
Ash Fork, Arizona. A brakeman closing the retainer on a car in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress
[A freight train on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF RR) chugs across a lonely stretch of Arizona's high desert between Seligman and Ash Fork in Yavapai County
[A freight train on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF RR) chugs across a lonely stretch of Arizona's high desert between Seligman and Ash Fork in Yavapai County
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
[A freight train on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF RR) chugs across a lonely stretch of Arizona's high desert between Seligman and Ash Fork in Yavapai County
[A freight train on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF RR) chugs across a lonely stretch of Arizona's high desert between Seligman and Ash Fork in Yavapai County
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

57 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Ash Fork between 1993 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKaibab National ForestCARLO
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKaibab National ForestPUTNEY
22 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
12 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictROCKY
12 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAsh Fork Volunteer Fire District91218
10 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictJOHNSONS
21 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDRAW MOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Ash Fork: 12 past producers, 10 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Volcanic Materials, Aggregate, Light Weight. 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
Cruice PitVolcanic Materials, Aggregate, Light WeightPast Producer
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerScoria

Every working recorded in Yavapai 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
Pinaveta4.7 miles22
Meath (historical)7.3 miles25
Crookton12.8 miles18
Drake17.8 miles30
Eddy Place19.3 miles25
Mack21.0 miles28
Seligman22.0 miles20
Abra22.4 miles30

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 Ash ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q724615The 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 25794. 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.