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Bakerville, Arizona

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bisbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85603. It lies near Copper King Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Bisbee quadrangle. It stands 5,039 feet above sea level.

Bakerville within Cochise County

On record in Bakerville

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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Bakerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,690 acres in total. 17 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/undetermined45
Natural17
Smoking5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGRASSY HILL
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBisbee Fire Departmentnot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
16 September 2004Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGRASSY
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictKINLEY
26 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeARIZONA STREET
12 August 2020Natural1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictMULE MOUNTAIN
7 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office346 COMPLEX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 92 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 92 workings within 5 miles of Bakerville: 75 past producers, 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Boras MineCopper, Manganese, Silver, GoldPast Producer1917
Briggs MineCopper, Lead, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
CampbellCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Bismuth, Indium, TinPast Producer
Campbell MineCopper, Manganese, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldPast ProducerReplacement
Caretto Claim GroupLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperOccurrenceGalena
Copper Queen MineCopper, Gemstone, Semiprecious Gemstone, Lead, Zinc, Gold, SilverPast Producer1877, 1881
CupriteCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Czar MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Denn MineCopper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, BismuthPast Producer1905, 1909, 1973
Don Luis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bakerville in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2014Flash FloodBakerville$2,000Heavy rain from the remnants of Odile previously saturated soils in Cochise County. Monsoon thunderstorms then brought another round of heavy rain to the Bisbee area, where a concrete retaining wall along a wash collapsed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBakerville$1,000Several 75 to 100-year-old trees were uprooted in Bisbee and Naco.
August 2015HailBakerville-no account filed
August 2010HailBakerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cochise 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
Galena0.3 miles24
Lowell0.5 miles24
Saginaw0.5 miles24
Briggs0.6 miles24
Tintown0.8 miles24
Warren0.9 miles24
South Bisbee1.0 miles24
Corta Junction1.9 miles24

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 BakervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191674The 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 971. 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.

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.