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Del Rio, Arizona

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Prescott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86334. It lies near Little Chino Valley. The Survey maps it on the Chino Valley North quadrangle.

Del Rio within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 29 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Del Rio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Natural7
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestMULDOON
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
1 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
30 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
20 August 1994Debris and open burning25 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Del Rio: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Clay, Gold. 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
Del Rio PlacersGoldPast Producer
Favour Pipestone DepositStone, ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Del Rio in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 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
April 2024Thunderstorm WindDel Rio$75,000A spotter reported wind gusts from the northwest at 57 MPH. There was an estimated $75,000+ worth of damage.
May 2023Heavy RainDel Rio-Almost an inch and a quarter (1.24) of rain fell in the Paulden area.
August 2022Flash FloodDel Rio-The river gauge on the Verde River near Perkinsville measured 12.16 feet. Base flow is about 2 feet.
July 2017Flash FloodDel Rio-Big Chino Wash rose 3 feet in a short time at Highway 89.

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
Paulden4.5 miles30
Chino Valley4.6 miles29
Abra5.4 miles30
Granite Siding9.0 miles30
Williamson10.5 miles26
Stringfield10.7 miles26
Mint10.7 miles26
Tutt11.3 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 42737. 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.