Boneyard, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Eagar-Springerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85920. It lies near Williams Valley. The Survey maps it on the Rudd Knoll quadrangle.

Boneyard within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1922 USGS Nutrioso quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Big Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Nutrioso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Rudd Knoll quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Rudd Knoll quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Boneyard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,988 acres in total. 121 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	121
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	MOLLY
29 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	XE
29 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	OPEN DRAW
28 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	THREE FORKS
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	COYOTE
22 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	LONG CANYON
19 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	AUGER CANYON
15 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	COYOTE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Three Forks	2.8 miles	15
Crosby Crossing	4.5 miles	15
Nutrioso	6.1 miles	14
Alpine	7.2 miles	14
Rosebud	8.4 miles	18
Feaster	10.3 miles	14
Troweek	11.7 miles	15
Greer	13.4 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 39009. 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.