BlockAthos, Arizona
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bullhead City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86401. The Survey maps it on the Yucca NW quadrangle. It stands 2,146 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1927 USGS Yucca quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Yucca quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1970 USGS Yucca NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Needles quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
53 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Athos between 1992 and 2020, burning about 362 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | HOCK |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | TOPEKA |
| 18 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | BLACK ROCK |
| 16 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 4 August 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | SANTA FE |
| 3 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | WALNUT |
| 27 August 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 100 acres | Phoenix District Office | WALNUT |
| 19 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Colorado River District | BLACK ROCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q24191649 | 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 24313. 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.