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Chalender, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Williams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86018. It lies near Pitman Valley. The Survey maps it on the Davenport Hill quadrangle.

Chalender within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Chalender between 1992 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 168 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
Natural168
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2000Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestQUARRY
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestBEACON
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestBOX
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKaibab National ForestLABOR
4 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestSHULTZ
30 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKaibab National ForestSUNFLOWER
30 September 2004Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestMOONSET
3 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKaibab National ForestKA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Chalender: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitsPumiceUnknown
ParksVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Spitz Spring Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Williams No. 10 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chalender in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025HailChalender-Public reported, via social media, hail up to the size of quarters.
September 2025HailChalender-Public reported, via social media, hail in Garland Prairie up to the size of quarters.
July 2010Heavy RainChalender-One inch of rain fell at Green Base Lookout Tower in 20 minutes. The storm total was 1.10 inches.
October 2010Tornado (EF1)Chalender-This tornado was determined via aerial photography and surveys, correlated with the tornadic radar signatures. The start and stop times were estimated from the radar data.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Sherwood Forest Estates1.1 miles22
Pine Tank2.2 miles22
Parks4.4 miles29
Bootlegger Crossing4.7 miles22
Maine4.8 miles29
Williams Junction5.9 miles24
Williams8.9 miles24
Bellemont10.2 miles31

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.

Wikidata item Q122590876The 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 27478. 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.