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Blue Hills Farms, Arizona

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Prescott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86327. It lies near Charcoal Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Prescott Valley South quadrangle.

Blue Hills Farms within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

199 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Blue Hills Farms between 1993 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 25 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined127
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony23
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2012Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestBANNIE
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-110331
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictDEWEY
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
25 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrescott National ForestCORLEY
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-121578
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-110352

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 96 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 96 workings within 5 miles of Blue Hills Farms: 34 past producers, 25 prospects, 15 producers, 12 unknowns. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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
Arizona NationalSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer
BannieCopper, Lead, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Big Bug DistrictZinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, SilverOccurrence
CaliforniaGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Dewey Ranch Clay No. 1ClayPast ProducerClay
DividendGold, Manganese, Silver, Copper, LeadPast Producer
FlorenceAntimony, Arsenic, CopperOccurrence
FlorenceAntimony, Arsenic, CopperOccurrenceVein
Gladstone-Mccabe MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Iron, Zinc, Silica, Arsenic, Antimony, SulfurProducer1885
HenriettaCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer

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
Dewey-Humboldt2.9 miles27
Dewey3.0 miles27
Humboldt3.4 miles27
Poland Junction5.0 miles33
Diamond Valley5.3 miles30
Yavapai Hills5.4 miles30
Castle Canyon Mesa5.8 miles30
Walker6.2 miles31

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 Q122547134The 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 38260. 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.