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Clarkdale, Arizona

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mingus Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86324. It stands on Bitter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clarkdale quadrangle. 4,424 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,547 feet above sea level.

Clarkdale within Yavapai County

On record in Clarkdale

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Clarkdale grew from 4,097 to 4,424 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
20104,097
20204,424+327 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Clarkdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined181
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrescott National ForestOXBOW
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVerde Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office12-0002075
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVerde Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office12-0002007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Clarkdale: 30 past producers, 17 producers, 11 prospects, 8 occurrences. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Clarkdale Cement Plant Limestone QuarryCement Rock, Limestone, GeneralProducerSedimentary
Clarkdale Clay QuarryBrick Clay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Green Monster MineGold, Copper, SilverProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Gold
Iron KingSilver, Gold, Copper, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Jerome Slag DumpCopper, IronUnknown
Jerome Verde MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, ZincPast Producer1901, 1920
QuarriesStone, Crushed/Broken, ClayProducer
United Verde Extension MineCopper, Zinc, Gold, SilverPast Producer1900, 1974
United Verde MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, ArsenicProducer1884, 1975
United Verde MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer1875, 1883

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkdale in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2022Flash FloodClarkdale-The Clarkdale Police Department reported that the Old Jerome Highway/89A was closed due to flooding and debris. Reta Street was also closed due to the flooding.
June 2022Flash FloodClarkdale-Two inches of rain (radar estimate) from a thunderstorm caused flash flooding in Clarkdale. Water flowed over sections of Wildhorse Lane and Old Jerome Highway. Police reported mud and rocks on the roadways with both streets barricaded.
September 2015Flash FloodClarkdale-Heavy rain from thunderstorms produce flash flooding over the Old Jerome Highway closing the road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindClarkdale-A 64 MPH wind gusts was measured at the Mesonet site in Clarkdale.
July 2006Funnel CloudClarkdale-A well defined funnel cloud was seen in the Clarkdale/Sycamore Canyon area.
July 2004HailClarkdale-A thunderstorm produce one inch diameter hail on the southwest side of Clarkdale.
July 1999Flash FloodClarkdale-Thunderstorm rains filled the normally dry Bitter Creek. Junk automobiles that were being stored in the creek bed were moved several feet downstream.
August 2000HailClarkdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yavapai 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
Centerville0.8 miles30
Tapco1.7 miles30
Clemenceau3.2 miles29
Jerome3.3 miles29
Cottonwood3.4 miles29
Smelter City3.9 miles21
Bridgeport4.7 miles21
Verde Village4.9 miles29

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 ClarkdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1123873The 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 27687. 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.