Drake, Arizona

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

• Little Hell Canyon Bridgelisted 1988
• Hell Canyon Bridgelisted 1988

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Hell Canyon Bridge, Spanning Hell Canyon on State Route 89 at Milepost 345.70, Drakefederal building survey, 1 photograph

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.

• 1887 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
• 1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1905 USGS Jerome quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Paulden quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Paulden quadrangle1:63360
• 1950 USGS Paulden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
• 1979 USGS Paulden quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Drake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Abra
• Arnold Place
• Cedar Mill
• Chilean Mill
• Flower Pot
• Hecla

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Drake: 8 past producers, 3 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drake in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 2 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Yavapai County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 28592. 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.