Dagger, Arizona
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Tonto Basin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85501. It lies in Dagger Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Dagger Peak quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 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.
- 1922 USGS Chrysotile quadrangle1:125000
- 1949 USGS Rockinstraw Mtn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Rockinstraw Mtn quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
- 1986 USGS Dagger Peak quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2004 USGS Dagger Peak quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
38 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Dagger between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,492 acres in total. 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 30 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | DOPEY |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | GRUMPY |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | BASHFUL |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | DOC |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | SNEEZY |
| 11 September 2011 | Natural | 30 acres | Tonto National Forest | YANKEE |
| 10 September 1995 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Tonto National Forest | DRY |
| 1 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | BILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow | 8.9 miles | 17 | |
| Roosevelt Estates | 11.0 miles | 23 | |
| Roosevelt Lake Estates | 11.2 miles | 23 | |
| Tucker | 11.5 miles | 15 | |
| Roosevelt Resort | 11.8 miles | 17 | |
| McMillianville | 11.8 miles | 15 | |
| Grapevine | 12.9 miles | 23 | |
| Rose Creek Lodge | 13.0 miles | 19 |
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 Q18349948 | The 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 39396. 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.










