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Cornville, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Camp Verde-Sedona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86325. It lies near Sheepshead Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cornville quadrangle. 3,362 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,225 feet above sea level.

Cornville within Yavapai County

Population over time

3 figures

Cornville grew from 3,335 to 3,362 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
20003,335
20103,280-55 (-2%)
20203,362+82 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Cornville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined195
Natural33
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking5

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVerde Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestDANCING APACHE
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVerde Valley Fire Districtnot named
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestHOUSE
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreVerde Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai 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 Cornville: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Mccarthy ClayClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornville in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 flash flood, 7 heavy rain, 5 hail, 4 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
July 2001Heavy RainCornville$150,000no account filed
October 2010HailCornville$20,000Two inch diameter hail fell in Corneville with minor damage to vehicles.
August 1997Flash FloodCornville$10,000Several roads were flooded in Cornville. Two cars were totally submerged in a wash. The vehicle owners parked the cars in the wash when it was dry to go off-road on motorcycles.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindCornville$2,000Two Arizona Cypress trees blew over from wind with a thunderstorm. The storm also produce d 1.33 inches of rain.
July 2025HailCornville-A social media post showed hail up to the size of quarters. The location has been estimated.
July 2024Flash FloodCornville-USGS stream gauge on the Verde River near Camp Verde (VAVA3) reported a 1.26 foot rise from earlier thunderstorms upstream at 745 PM. Another gauge downstream (VCVA3) started to rise at 200 AM, peaked at 600 AM (just under a one foot rise), and then returned to near normal at 600 AM on July 19.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCornville-Thunderstorm winds damaged roof shingles and window screens near Cornville.
September 2023Flash FloodCornville-The grave gauge on the Verde River at Clarksdale showed a rapid 3 foot rise.
July 2021Flash FloodCornville-Heavy rain caused Dry Creek to rise 2.5 feet in a flash flood.
August 2021Flash FloodCornville-The Verde River near Camp Verde rose almost two feet with a crest of 4.39 feet at 6:00 PM MST (VAVA3).
January 2018Heavy RainCornville-Heavy rain (about half an inch in an hour) was a contributing factor to a five-vehicle collision involving fatalities and additional injuries on southbound Interstate 17 at State Route 169.
August 2018Heavy RainCornville-An inch of rain fell in 45 minutes in Cornville.
August 2018Flash FloodCornville-The low water crossing at Maggie Lane was covered with three feet of water.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCornville-The MESONET station in Camp Verde measured a 72 MPH wind gust at 405 PM from a thunderstorm in the area. A large cottonwood tree was snapped by wind 1 mile south-southwest of Cornville at 515 PM. Several 5 inch diameter tree branches were downed by wind in Cornville around 530 PM. The National Forest Service District Office had significant wind damage to solar panels. Several were ripped from the support beams around 600 PM MST.
October 2018Flash FloodCornville-The Oak Creek river gauge at Page Springs recorded a crest of 9.88 feet at 215 AM MST due to moderate daytime rain and heavy evening rain. This is 7.78 feet above the normal flow.
August 2017Heavy RainCornville-A thunderstorm produced 1.60 inches of rain in 45 minutes (heavy rain still falling a the time of the report). Water was starting to run in the normally dry washes.
July 2017Heavy RainCornville-A trained spotter reported a strong thunderstorm with one inch of rain in 30 to 45 minutes, wind gusts to 47 MPH, and pea sized hail. There was minor flooding with a lot of rocks, debris, and tree branches on Page Springs Road.
September 2016Heavy RainCornville-Thunderstorms produced 1.42 inches of rain over about 2 hours. Minor street flooding and flowing washes were reported.
July 2015Heavy RainCornville-A spotter between Sedona and Cornville received 1.11 inches of rain in just over 30 minutes.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCornville-Strong winds from a thunderstorm snapped a large (3.5 food diameter) cottonwood tree in half in Cornville. A fence was also blown down.
September 2011Flash FloodCornville-Law Enforcement officials reported an ongoing swift water rescue on Spring Creek.
September 2011Flash FloodCornville-A trained spotter reported flash flood debris covering roadways in Page Springs.
October 2010HailCornville-A thunderstorm produced hail across Cornville that ranged from quarter to golf ball sized (1 to 1.75 inches in diameter).
July 2008Flash FloodCornville-Heavy rain from a thunderstorm flooded portions of Page Springs Road near Page Springs. The highway department had to remove the rocks that were covering the road as a result of the flooding.
August 2008HailCornville-A thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch diameter hail and one inch of rain in Verde Valley.
August 2008HailCornville-A thunderstorm produced nickel to quarter sized (3/4 to 1 inch diameter) hail in Cornville. Heavy rain also caused some minor flooding problems on local roads.
July 2007FloodCornville-Water was running over roads in Cornville.
May 2001LightningCornville-Lightning strikes caused three homes to catch fire. Two of the homes were completely burned and/or destroyed.

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
Jordan2.1 miles21
Bignotti3.2 miles21
Page Springs3.7 miles23
Verde3.9 miles21
Bridgeport4.0 miles21
Smelter City4.2 miles21
Verde Village4.8 miles29
Cottonwood4.9 miles29

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 CornvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976662The 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 27961. 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.