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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.

Dagger within Gila County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

38 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestDOPEY
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestGRUMPY
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestBASHFUL
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestDOC
8 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestSNEEZY
11 September 2011Natural30 acresTonto National ForestYANKEE
10 September 1995Natural1.5 acresTonto National ForestDRY
1 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestBILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila 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
Willow8.9 miles17
Roosevelt Estates11.0 miles23
Roosevelt Lake Estates11.2 miles23
Tucker11.5 miles15
Roosevelt Resort11.8 miles17
McMillianville11.8 miles15
Grapevine12.9 miles23
Rose Creek Lodge13.0 miles19

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 Q18349948The 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.