BlockCanyon Diablo, Arizona
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Tuba City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86035. The Survey maps it on the Canyon Diablo quadrangle. It stands 5,433 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1886 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1899 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Canyon Diablo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
30 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Canyon Diablo between 1993 and 2020, burning about 688 acres in total. 1 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 | 16 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 9 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 486 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern District | DIABLO |
| 5 July 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | LUPPE-SW |
| 1 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TRACKS |
| 1 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | CONUNDRUM` |
| 8 June 2001 | Smoking | 2.5 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 227 |
| 22 June 1994 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 21 June 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | CANYON DIABLO 2 |
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 Canyon Diablo: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two Guns | 3.4 miles | 22 | |
| Sunshine | 5.3 miles | 22 | |
| Rimmy Jims | 5.9 miles | 22 | |
| Angell | 10.1 miles | 22 | |
| Meteor City | 10.7 miles | 19 | |
| Leupp | 11.0 miles | 21 | |
| Sunrise | 11.6 miles | 21 | |
| Old Leupp | 11.6 miles | 21 |
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 Canyon Diablo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5034199 | 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 24344. 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.