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Blue Ridge, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86024. It lies near Moqui Draw. The Survey maps it on the Quayle Hill quadrangle.

Blue Ridge within Coconino County

On record in Blue Ridge

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Blue Ridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 203 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
Natural203
Recreation and ceremony25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestOVERTIME
29 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestLAST
28 September 2016Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestAZTEC
28 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National Forestnot named
27 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestHUNT
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoconino National ForestPROWLER
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCoconino National ForestCAR
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestZYN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Blue Ridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, 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
Dogtown MineLead, Silver, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Ridge in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
August 2012Flash FloodBlue Ridge-A climber in Jacks Canyon downstream from the Canyon Fire area reported heavy rain and hail started around 1215. He also stated: The primary stage of the flood was from 1245-1430. Secondary stage from 1430-1630 and tertiary 1630- until we exited around 1845. The next morning the water was still flowing but had decreased by 80% or so. During the storm we were having lightning strikes with in a mile every 90secs between 1230-1430. Hail and high winds for 15-30 minutes around 1300. Hail stones around 4-8mm.||I would guess that the size and energy of the flood had to do more with the fact that it was a recent fire area. The storm did move from the East to the South West which pretty much follows the topography of the canyon. The debris was mostly fire damage trees and soil.||No other reports of flooding in that area were received.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Macks Crossing1.4 miles16
Horse Crossing3.6 miles16
Victorine Crossing4.9 miles16
Kinder Crossing5.0 miles16
Little Spring6.7 miles16
Lost Eden8.0 miles16
Echinique Place9.6 miles16
Wiggins Crossing10.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2805212. 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.