BlockDrake, Arizona
28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Bullhead City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86401. The Survey maps it on the Kingman SE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 28 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.
- 1886 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1942 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1967 USGS Kingman SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Davis Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
86 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Drake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | HOCK |
| 8 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | TOPEKA |
| 26 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 26 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.4 acres | Phoenix District Office | TOPEKA |
| 18 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | BLACK ROCK |
| 18 September 2005 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | EVENING GRIFFITH |
| 16 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 8 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TAITEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Drake: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder Creek Group | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Silver | |
| Hackberry Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fay | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| McKesson Group | Gold | Occurrence | Gold |
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drake in 1 storm report in 2014: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Drake | $400,000 | Thunderstorm winds sheared four transmission poles south of Griffith Road, knocking out power to all of Golden Valley and parts of Kingman for two hours; and in Chloride, Dolan Springs, Meadview, and White Hills for 16 hours. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25303. 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.