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Bradshaw City, Arizona

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Congress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86343. It lies near Wasson Peak. The Survey maps it on the Crown King quadrangle. It stands 6,358 feet above sea level.

Bradshaw City within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 31 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

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Bradshaw City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29,090 acres in total. 109 started naturally. 3 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
Natural109
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony24
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePrescott National ForestTOWERS
7 September 1995Natural2.0 acresPrescott National ForestWILDFLOWER
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestBARTOL
6 September 1997Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestLANE
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestLORENA
4 September 1999Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestCITIZEN
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrescott National ForestPOINT
28 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrescott National ForestHORSETHIEF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 121 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 121 workings within 5 miles of Bradshaw City: 47 past producers, 29 prospects, 24 producers, 11 unknowns. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Gold, 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
Apache LimestoneLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Bluebird MineLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum, ZincProducer1922, 1925, 1927
Bradshaw Fissure Mining Co PropertyGold, Lead, Silver, ZincProspect
Button MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducer1901, 1942
Cornucopia MineGold, Silver, Copper, MolybdenumPast ProducerVein
Cougar MineSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Crown King MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, IronProducerVein
Crown King MineGold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, VanadiumPast Producer
Del Pasco MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincProducerVein
FairviewGold, REEProspect

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
Crown King1.1 miles31
Lapham2.7 miles30
Minnehaha3.6 miles30
Chilean Mill3.7 miles30
Fort Misery3.9 miles31
Burro John4.6 miles31
Hooper5.0 miles32
East Fort5.8 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.

Wikipedia article on Bradshaw CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q731609The 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 26704. 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.