BlockCoolidge Dam, Arizona
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the San Carlos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85542. It lies near Soda Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Coolidge Dam quadrangle.
On record in Coolidge Dam
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Coolidge Damlisted 1981 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1915 USGS Christmas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1917 USGS Christmas quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Coolidge Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Globe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Coolidge Dam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 298 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 17 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | San Carlos Agency | BLUE |
| 3 August 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | San Carlos Agency | WASTE |
| 27 August 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | San Carlos Agency | KID |
| 19 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Apache Agency | FOOT |
| 16 August 2020 | Natural | 123 acres | San Carlos Agency | SC LAKE |
| 16 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | San Carlos Agency | RABBIT II |
| 13 August 1995 | Natural | 15 acres | San Carlos Agency | BORDERLINE |
| 11 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | San Carlos Agency | ARSON |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 3197. 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.