Durfee Crossing, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85931. It lies near Durfee Draw. The Survey maps it on the Chevelon Crossing quadrangle. It stands 6,178 feet above sea level.

Durfee Crossing within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1886 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Chevelon Crossing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Chevelon Crossing quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Durfee Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,582 acres in total. 37 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
Natural	37
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
13 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WAGON DRAW
11 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
6 August 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BECKY
30 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	MILES
30 August 2001	Natural	8.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	DURFEE
13 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	DURFEE
9 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BUNNY
9 July 2018	Natural	90 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	CHEV

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mormon Crossing	3.1 miles	17
Lower Tillman	3.8 miles	16
Babbit Winter	3.9 miles	16
Wiggins Crossing	10.5 miles	17
Echinique Place	13.1 miles	16
Mule Crossing	13.1 miles	26
Whitted Place	13.7 miles	16
Victorine Crossing	14.0 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q28221411

The 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 28686. 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.