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Clints Well, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86024. The Survey maps it on the Long Valley quadrangle. It stands 6,854 feet above sea level.

Clints Well within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

492 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 492 fires within 5 miles of Clints Well between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,213 acres in total. 371 started naturally. 9 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
Natural371
Recreation and ceremony70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1

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 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestBLAZED
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestBRONX
8 September 2008Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestCOOKIE
6 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestLJ
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestFLEECE
6 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestCHILSON
6 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National Forestnot named
5 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestEXPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Clints Well: 4 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Pumice. 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
Sunset Mining Claims MS 4531Pumice, ManganeseProspect
Denison GroupManganesePast ProducerPsilomelane, Pyrolusite
Hough ManganeseManganesePast Producer
Last Chance MineManganesePast Producer
Long Valley ClaimManganeseProspect
Shoup GroupManganesePast ProducerPsilomelane, Pyrolusite
Star ClaimManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clints Well in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 2 heavy rain, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2021Heavy RainClints Well-A thunderstorm produce 1.20 inches of rain in just over an hour about 12 miles east-northeast of Clints Well (at the rat of an inch per hour).
July 2021Tornado (EF1)Clints Well-Photos of large ponderosa pine trees snapped off, funnel cloud, and radar signature supported reports of a tornado. Path Measured after official NWS storm survey.
October 2010Tornado (EF2)Clints Well-The US Forest Service and NWS reported significant tornado damage near Blue Ridge Ranger Station and NWS Radar site. Hundreds of ponderosa pines were blown over or snapped off along a 14.8 mile path. At least one alligator juniper that was 2 and a half feet in diameter was snapped off. Trees were down across Highway 87 between mile markers 296 and 298. NWS Storm Surveys and aerial surveys contributed to the event analysis.
December 2007Heavy RainClints Well-Heavy rain fell over Coconino County through the day. Some rainfall totals include: Flagstaff Airport: 1.38, Dry Park RAWS: 0.90, Grand Canyon Airport 1.00, Mormon Lake RAWS 2.54, Promontory RAWS 2.52.
September 2003Flash FloodClints Well-Flash flooding covered State Highway 87 with 5 feet of water about 17 miles northeast of Clints Well.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Wingfield1.2 miles16
Jones Crossing2.3 miles16
Long Valley2.5 miles16
Little Spring5.4 miles16
Lost Eden6.0 miles16
Kinder Crossing9.0 miles16
Horse Crossing9.9 miles16
Blue Ridge12.1 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q28220804The 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 27726. 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.