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Bear Flat, Arizona

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85541. It stands on Bear Flat. The Survey maps it on the Promontory Butte quadrangle. 11 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,964 feet above sea level.

Bear Flat within Gila County

Population over time

2 figures

Bear Flat fell from 18 to 11 between 2010 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
201018
202011-7 (-39%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

430 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 430 fires within 5 miles of Bear Flat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,496 acres in total. 262 started naturally. 9 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
Natural262
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Recreation and ceremony44
Equipment and vehicle use20
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking9
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks3
Other causes2

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
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestPROMONTORY BUTTE
6 September 1995Natural7.0 acresTonto National ForestLEO
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTonto National ForestSEE
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChristopher-Kohl's Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
4 September 2004Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestBOOT
30 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChristopher-Kohl's Fire District194
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestKOHLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Bear Flat: 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Copper, Uranium. 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
Christopher Mtn HematiteIronOccurrence
Goose Egg ClaimGoldProspect
Hillside Clai3CopperProspect
Mormon Lake Uranium ClaimsUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Gila 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
Thompson Draw Summer Homes Unit One2.4 miles27
Kohls Ranch2.6 miles27
Thompson Draw Summer Homes Unit Two3.0 miles27
Hunter Creek Ranch3.1 miles27
Christopher Creek3.1 miles27
Tonto Village3.8 miles25
Mountain Meadow3.8 miles27
Mountain Meadows3.9 miles27

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 Bear FlatAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5843072The 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 40865. 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.