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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.

Briggs 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

9 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined95 acresPhoenix District OfficeCOPPER
7 August 1993Natural1.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeDEEM
20 August 2020Natural12,252 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictCONSTELLATION
20 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeCONSTELLATION ASSIST
31 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePICKMUP
7 June 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeLOUSY
24 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeCASTLE CREEK
24 June 1995Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeBEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 78 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Abe LincolnCopper, Calcium, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumPast Producer
Abe Lincoln MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Arizona Standard Mining and Mill CoCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Vanadium, ZincPast Producer
Black Butte ProspectTungsten, ManganeseOccurrenceHollandite, Psilomelane, Pyrolusite, Scheelite
BornCopper, Iron, GoldProspect
BuckhornSilver, Gold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Buckhorn Drumm GroupCopper, Gold, Iron, QuartzOccurrence
Buckhorn GroupGold, Copper, SilicaOccurrenceQuartz
Bunker Hill MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Vanadium, MolybdenumProducer1870, 1933, 1935
Champie MineLead, Silver, Copper, GoldProducer1937, 1965

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
Copperopolis1.4 miles30
Lehman Mill2.5 miles30
Constellation5.7 miles31
Big Reef Mill6.6 miles16
Chilean Mill7.6 miles30
Paxton Place7.7 miles30
Burro John7.7 miles31
Minnehaha7.9 miles30

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 BriggsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28220152The 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.