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Desert Hills, Arizona

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lake Havasu City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86404. The Survey maps it on the Lake Havasu City North quadrangle. 2,764 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Desert Hills within Mohave County

Population over time

3 figures

Desert Hills grew from 2,183 to 2,764 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
20002,183
20102,245+62 (+3%)
20202,764+519 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Desert Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 618 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined81
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Havasu City Fire Departmentnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresColorado River DistrictCAMPBELL
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCAMPBELL
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDesert Hills Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Havasu City Fire Departmentnot named
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Havasu City Fire Department8006218
24 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado River DistrictCASTLE ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Desert Hills: 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Chemehuevis PlacersGoldPast Producer1857
Mexican Or Spanish DiggingsGoldPast Producer
Havarin Ranch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Pit #8374Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Pit No. 8374Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mohave 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
Jops Landing0.8 miles28
Lake Havasu City5.5 miles23
Powell12.7 miles26
Topock12.8 miles26
Franconia13.9 miles26
Catfish Paradise14.5 miles26
Fivemile Landing18.1 miles25
Haviland20.0 miles16

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 Desert HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1200593The 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 1866982. 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.