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Chambers, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Puerco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86502. The Survey maps it on the Chambers quadrangle. It stands 5,755 feet above sea level.

Chambers within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Chambers between 1993 and 2020, burning about 808 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
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
8 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRAIL
18 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCHAMBERS7
12 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCHAMBERS
6 August 1995Smoking11 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementFILTROMINE
5 August 2005Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCHAMBERS 5
4 August 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementPADRE 1
4 August 2001Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJO N
29 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCHAMBERS 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Chambers: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bentonite, Clay. 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
Big SixClayPast Producer
Big Six MineBentonitePast ProducerBentonite
ChambersClayPast Producer
Chambers MineBentonitePast ProducerBentonite

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chambers in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2016: 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2016Heavy RainChambers-The Chambers Mesonet station (PUCA3) recorded 1.62 inches of rainfall.
August 2006Flash FloodChambers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Apache 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
Chetco5.6 miles15
Sanders5.6 miles15
Navajo7.1 miles15
Pinta12.8 miles15
Houck13.6 miles15
Tanner Springs15.0 miles15
Allentown16.2 miles15
Wide Ruins16.3 miles15

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 ChambersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5069626The 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 24356. 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.