Chino Valley, Arizona
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Prescott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86323. The Survey maps it on the Chino Valley North quadrangle. 13,020 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,708 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChino Valley grew from 10,817 to 13,020 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,817 | |
| 2020 | 13,020 | +2,203 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 29 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.
- 1887 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1905 USGS Jerome quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Paulden quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Paulden quadrangle1:63360
- 1950 USGS Paulden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Chino Valley North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
111 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Chino Valley between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,262 acres in total. 3 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 | 104 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority | NOT NAMED |
| 29 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority | NOT NAMED |
| 25 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority | 10933 |
| 24 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority | NOT NAMED |
| 24 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority | 10903 |
| 14 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority | NOT NAMED |
| 1 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority | NOT NAMED |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority | NOT NAMED |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Chino Valley: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airport Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Del Rio Placers | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Favour Pipestone Deposit | Stone, Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Adit | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Shaft | Copper | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chino Valley in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chino Valley | $500,000 | Winds from a dry microburst destroyed two mobile homes, a 4,000 square feet commercial greenhouse, some chicken coops, and blew roofs off some homes. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Chino Valley | - | Thunderstorms produced large hail and heavy rain. A metal storage shed was blown across a yard of a residence on North Grenada Drive. Willow Creek Greenhouses reported losing all of its outside plants, valued at about $1 million. Northern Arizona Tree Farms farther west on Center Street experienced major damage to trees, flowers, and vegetable plants. Flooding was also reported in some areas. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Del Rio | 4.6 miles | 29 | |
| Granite Siding | 4.9 miles | 30 | |
| Williamson | 6.6 miles | 26 | |
| Stringfield | 6.9 miles | 26 | |
| Tutt | 7.0 miles | 30 | |
| Mint | 7.3 miles | 26 | |
| Paulden | 8.9 miles | 30 | |
| Abra | 10.0 miles | 30 |
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 Chino Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q985261 | 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 27601. 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.













