Bell, Arizona

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.

• 1886 USGS St Johns quadrangle1:250000
• 1892 USGS St Johns quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Silver Springs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Springerville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Silver Springs quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Bell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Show Low
• Sponseller
• Silver Creek
• White Mountain Lake
• White Mountain Lakes Estates

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Bell: 6 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Navajo County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 26191. 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.