Clay Springs, Arizona
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Snowflake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85923. It lies near Rattlesnake Point. The Survey maps it on the Clay Springs quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,302 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClay Springs fell from 401 to 331 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 | 401 | |
| 2020 | 331 | -70 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1886 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clay Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Show Low quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Clay Springs quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Clay Springs quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
172 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Clay Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 385 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 87 |
| Natural | 56 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1996 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | BRYANT |
| 28 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | PINEDALE |
| 21 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | GROVER SPRINGS |
| 20 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | MP 320 HWY 260 |
| 18 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 1200 TURKEY HILL |
| 18 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | BUCK |
| 13 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HWY 260 MM 324 |
| 1 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest | ARIPINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clay Springs: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Coal, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Joe Hancock Silver | Iron, Coal | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinedale | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Aripine | 7.9 miles | 17 | |
| Burton | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Linden | 9.0 miles | 16 | |
| Schoens Crossing | 10.0 miles | 15 | |
| Robinson Trail Crossing | 10.9 miles | 16 | |
| Roundy Crossing | 11.6 miles | 16 | |
| Shumway | 12.2 miles | 15 |
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 Clay Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5129995 | 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 27691. 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.









