Briggs, Arizona
30 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 86332. It lies near Thoma Butte. The Survey maps it on the Copperopolis quadrangle. It stands 2,759 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 30 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1903 USGS Bradshaw Mountains quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Crown King quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Crown King quadrangle1:63360, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Crown King quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Copperopolis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Bradshaw Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Briggs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 12,355 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 95 acres | Phoenix District Office | COPPER |
| 7 August 1993 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | DEEM |
| 20 August 2020 | Natural | 12,252 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District | CONSTELLATION |
| 20 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | CONSTELLATION ASSIST |
| 31 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | PICKMUP |
| 7 June 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | LOUSY |
| 24 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | CASTLE CREEK |
| 24 June 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | BEE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 78 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 78 workings within 5 miles of Briggs: 26 prospects, 20 past producers, 15 occurrences, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Copper, Gold, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abe Lincoln | Copper, Calcium, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Abe Lincoln Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite | |
| Arizona Standard Mining and Mill Co | Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Vanadium, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Black Butte Prospect | Tungsten, Manganese | Occurrence | Hollandite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Scheelite | |
| Born | Copper, Iron, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Buckhorn | Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Buckhorn Drumm Group | Copper, Gold, Iron, Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Buckhorn Group | Gold, Copper, Silica | Occurrence | Quartz | |
| Bunker Hill Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Vanadium, Molybdenum | Producer | 1870, 1933, 1935 | |
| Champie Mine | Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold | Producer | 1937, 1965 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copperopolis | 1.4 miles | 30 | |
| Lehman Mill | 2.5 miles | 30 | |
| Constellation | 5.7 miles | 31 | |
| Big Reef Mill | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Chilean Mill | 7.6 miles | 30 | |
| Paxton Place | 7.7 miles | 30 | |
| Burro John | 7.7 miles | 31 | |
| Minnehaha | 7.9 miles | 30 |
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 Briggs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28220152 | The 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 24336. 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.













