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Chetco, 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 86512. The Survey maps it on the Sanders quadrangle. It stands 5,866 feet above sea level.

Chetco within Apache County

On record in Chetco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Chetco between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 13 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
Debris and open burning62
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Fireworks6
Smoking4
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
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSALT
18 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCHAMBERS7
15 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCEDAR POINT
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBUD
14 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementW.QUERINO1
13 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementVHS HILLS
13 September 1995Smokingunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementBURNTWATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Chetco: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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
Houck Silica Operation MineSilicaProducer
Houck Silica SandSilicaProducerSedimentary
Big SixClayPast Producer
Bleaching Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
ChambersClayPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Big Six MineBentonitePast ProducerBentonite
Bleaching Clay DepositBentoniteOccurrenceBentonite

Every working 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
Sanders0.0 miles15
Chambers5.6 miles15
Houck8.2 miles15
Allentown10.7 miles15
Navajo12.5 miles15
Pine Springs13.3 miles15
Wide Ruins16.4 miles15
Lupton17.6 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.

Wikidata item Q28007457The 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 24361. 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.