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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.

Clay Springs within Navajo County

Population over time

2 figures

Clay 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.

YearPeople Change
2010401
2020331-70 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

172 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined87
Natural56
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
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
3 September 1996Natural2.0 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestBRYANT
28 September 2000Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestPINEDALE
21 September 2009Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestGROVER SPRINGS
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMP 320 HWY 260
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office1200 TURKEY HILL
18 September 1999Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestBUCK
13 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHWY 260 MM 324
1 September 2002Smokingunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestARIPINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Joe Hancock SilverIron, CoalUnknown

Every working recorded in Navajo 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
Pinedale4.4 miles17
Aripine7.9 miles17
Burton8.1 miles16
Linden9.0 miles16
Schoens Crossing10.0 miles15
Robinson Trail Crossing10.9 miles16
Roundy Crossing11.6 miles16
Shumway12.2 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.

Wikipedia article on Clay SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5129995The 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.