Camel, Arizona
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Buckeye census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85333. The Survey maps it on the Hyder quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1927 USGS Hyder quadrangle1:62500
- 1930 USGS Hyder quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1942 USGS Vicksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Hyder SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1969 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Little Horn Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
3 photographs, 1942Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Camel between 1994 and 2004, burning about 988 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | OATMAN |
| 13 August 2004 | Natural | 300 acres | Colorado River District | AGUA |
| 13 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HYDER |
| 12 August 2001 | Natural | 526 acres | Phoenix District Office | AGUACALIEN |
| 5 May 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 11 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Phoenix District Office | HYDER |
| 13 April 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Phoenix District Office | HYDER VALL |
| 26 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HYDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camel: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Geothermal | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camel in 1 storm report in 2022: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Camel | - | A FCDMC streamflow gage along Columbus Wash exceeded alarm stage, impacting downstream low water crossings along Highline Road and 579th Avenue. At 0110MST, the gage peaked at a depth of 3.57 feet and a flow of 322 CFS. No damage or injuries were reported. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24754. 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.










