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Chloride, Arizona

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kingman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86431. It lies near Silver Hill. The Survey maps it on the Chloride quadrangle. 229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,022 feet above sea level.

Chloride within Mohave County

Population over time

2 figures

Chloride fell from 271 to 229 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.

YearPeople Change
2010271
2020229-42 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 32 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Chloride between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined30
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeCLYDE
28 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado River DistrictWHEEL
8 August 1994Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
25 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictBIG WASH
25 August 1996Natural140 acresPhoenix District OfficeVOCK
25 August 1996Natural25 acresPhoenix District OfficeGADDIS2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 193 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 193 workings within 5 miles of Chloride: 93 past producers, 43 occurrences, 37 unknowns, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Silver, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Altata MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum, ArsenicPast ProducerVein
Annie ProspectSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrence
Argyle MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Copper, ArsenicProducerVein
AuroraLead, Vanadium, Gold, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Aurora MineVanadium, Lead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Bay StateCopper, Silver, Gallium, Gold, Indium, Lead, ZincProspect
Blackfoot MineSilver, Zinc, Sulfur-Pyrite, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Brighter DaysGold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite, ZincPast Producer
Brighter Days MineLead, Gold, Silver, ZincPast ProducerVein
Clyde ProspectCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, ZincOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chloride in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Flash FloodChloride$5,000Personal weather station measured 1.03 of rain in 21 minutes. Two small culverts were damaged by flooding.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindChloride$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 100 mph blew the roof off a horse coral.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindChloride-Blowing dust also reduced visibility to 1/4 - 1/2 mile.
July 2009HailChloride-Quarter sized hail fell in Chloride.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindChloride-Small shed ripped up and wooden awning destroyed.
August 2005Flash FloodChloride-Washes overflowed their banks.
August 2005Flash FloodChloride-Water into the first floor of some buildings in both Chloride and Dolan Springs.
July 2005Flash FloodChloride-Streets flooded.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindChloride-A weather spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph from a nearby thunderstorm. No damage was reported.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindChloride-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mohave 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
Grasshopper Junction3.4 miles27
Santa Claus5.4 miles32
Cerbat8.3 miles32
Stockton9.3 miles34
Dolan Springs12.9 miles29
Golden Valley13.2 miles27
New Kingman14.5 miles34
Butler15.9 miles20

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 ChlorideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2964098The 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 2882. 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.