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Constellation, Arizona

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Congress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85390. It stands on Mahoney Wash. The Survey maps it on the Morgan Butte quadrangle.

Constellation within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Constellation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,465 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
20 August 2020Natural12,252 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictCONSTELLATION
20 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeCONSTELLATION ASSIST
30 July 2005Natural2.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeTOWERS
17 July 2005Natural200 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCONSTELLATION
28 June 1995Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 June 1992Debris and open burningunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeSHAFT
25 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeSLIM
6 February 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 83 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 83 workings within 5 miles of Constellation: 25 past producers, 23 prospects, 18 occurrences, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Copper, Gold, Gold, 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
Abe LincolnCopper, Calcium, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumPast Producer
Abe Lincoln MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Black ButteLead, Silver, Chromium, Gold, Molybdenum, VanadiumProspect
Black RockGold, Copper, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Black Rock MineGold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, LeadProducer1902, 1940, 1941
Blue RockLead, Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
BornCopper, Iron, GoldProspect
BrundageVanadiumProspect
Buckhorn Drumm GroupCopper, Gold, Iron, QuartzOccurrence
Buckhorn GroupGold, Copper, SilicaOccurrenceQuartz

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Constellation in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2019Heavy RainConstellation-Heavy rain fell across the lower elevations of Yavapai County. A public report of 0.93 inches of rain was received in the McGuireville area by 800 AM on Tuesday (December 24) morning. Rain continued to fall in that area through Christmas Day.
July 2015Flash FloodConstellation-Flash flooding closed two roads in southern Yavapai County just north of Wickenburg.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindConstellation-A spotter reported a peak wind gust of 72 MPH at 734 PM MST. A one foot diameter/35 foot tall tree was blown down and a garage door was damaged by the wind.
August 2013Flash FloodConstellation-Portions of Rincon Road were closed along Martinez Wash due to flash flooding.

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
Briggs5.7 miles30
Copperopolis6.1 miles30
Lehman Mill6.7 miles30
Octave7.9 miles31
Big Reef Mill8.5 miles16
Sand Mill8.6 miles31
Paxton Place9.1 miles30
Stanton10.5 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 42812. 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.