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Claypool, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Globe-Miami census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85532. It stands on Bloody Tanks Wash. The Survey maps it on the Globe quadrangle. 1,395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,327 feet above sea level.

Claypool within Gila County

Population over time

3 figures

Claypool fell from 1,794 to 1,395 between 2000 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
20001,794
20101,538-256 (-14%)
20201,395-143 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Claypool between 1992 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined69
Natural25
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTri-City Fire Districtnot named
8 September 1997Natural155 acresTonto National ForestMUSKHOG
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestBEAUTY
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTonto National Forestnot named
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTri-City Fire District2703
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlobe Fire Department1433
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlobe Fire Department1418
25 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTri-City Fire District2663

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 134 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 134 workings within 5 miles of Claypool: 78 past producers, 34 producers, 10 prospects, 9 occurrences. 36 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Gold, Copper, Silver. 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
Albert Lea MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum, Vanadium, ZincPast Producer1941, 1946
Albert Lea TunnelsSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, VanadiumPast Producer
Apache MineVanadium, Lead, Molybdenum, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Semiprecious GemstonePast Producer1875, 1929, 1957
Azurite MineClayOccurrence
Big Johnnie MineCopper, IronPast Producer1901
Cedar Tree DepositSilver, Copper, Gold, TungstenPast Producer
Copper Cities & Diamond HCopper, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Uranium, GemstonePast Producer1896
Copper HillCopper, Silica, Silver, UraniumPast Producer
Cyprus MiamiCopper, Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Rhodium, Zinc, Lead, PGEProducer1872, 1915
Day Peaks Area VeinsMolybdenum, Lead, Tungsten, GoldOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Gila County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claypool in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 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
September 2025Flash FloodClaypool$100,000Video showed significant flash flooding along US-60 near Grover Canyon Rd with a few feet of water in front of the Miami Regional Training Center with water up to the hoods of several cars. No injuries reported.
September 2025Flash FloodClaypool-Fast flowing water along Vanwinkle Avenue in Miami. No damages or injuries reported.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindClaypool-Ten inch diameter tree blown over onto a resident. Minor damage to a trailer door by downed electric power lines.

Every storm recorded in Gila 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
Miami Gardens0.8 miles20
Lower Miami0.8 miles20
Midland City1.0 miles20
Central Heights1.5 miles20
Miami1.6 miles20
Little Acres1.6 miles20
Inspiration2.2 miles23
Burch2.3 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 ClaypoolAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2275713The 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 27695. 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.