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Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona

27 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 86327. It lies near Texas Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Humboldt quadrangle. 4,326 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,580 feet above sea level.

Dewey-Humboldt within Yavapai County

Population over time

2 figures

Dewey-Humboldt grew from 3,894 to 4,326 between 2010 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
20103,894
20204,326+432 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

127 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Dewey-Humboldt between 1993 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined109
Natural4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-110331
8 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLUZENA
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictDEWEY
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-121578
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-110352
1 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
9 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-131913

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Dewey-Humboldt: 20 past producers, 13 prospects, 11 producers, 9 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
Arizona NationalSilver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Atlas CopperCopper, Manganese, SilicaPast Producer
Big Bug DistrictZinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Dewey Ranch Clay No. 1ClayPast ProducerClay
Dewey Ranch No. 2Brick ClayProducerClay
Gladstone-Mccabe MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Iron, Zinc, Silica, Arsenic, Antimony, SulfurProducer1885
Hull PropertyGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Hull PropertyCopper, Lead, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Huron MineCopper, Silver, GoldProducer1923
Iron King PropertyGold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, CadmiumPast Producer1880, 1906

Every working 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
Dewey0.1 miles27
Humboldt2.0 miles27
Blue Hills Farms2.9 miles30
Poland Junction5.6 miles33
Hecla6.4 miles28
Prescott Valley6.8 miles30
Castle Canyon Mesa7.3 miles30
Diamond Valley7.5 miles30

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 Dewey-HumboldtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1774802The 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 2350969. 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.