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Cedar Springs, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Indian Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86047. It lies near Lone Cottonwood Butte. The Survey maps it on the Dilkon quadrangle. It stands 6,280 feet above sea level.

Cedar Springs within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Springs between 1995 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
6 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use23 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCEDAR SPRINGS
2 September 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDILKON 1
8 July 2019Arson/incendiarism16 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementTEES TOH 2
24 July 2003Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePACKSADDLE
23 July 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDILCON ONE
23 July 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDEL MUERTO
17 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementDILCON 1
16 July 2006Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCLARK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo 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
Tees Toh4.0 miles18
Dilkon5.1 miles20
Seba Dalkai5.5 miles18
Castle Butte10.2 miles18
Na Ah Tee11.9 miles18
Indian Wells15.1 miles18
Bidahochi16.3 miles18
White Cone18.9 miles19

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 Cedar SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28167190The 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 24352. 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.