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Eagar, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Eagar-Springerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85925. It stands on Water Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagar quadrangle. 4,395 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,080 feet above sea level.

Eagar within Apache County

On record in Eagar

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Eagar grew from 397 to 4,395 between 1910 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
1910397
20104,885
20204,395-490 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Eagar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,243 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined74
Recreation and ceremony31
Debris and open burning27
Natural21
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
23 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEagar Fire Departmentnot named
18 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestFLAT
7 August 2000Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGRAPEVINE
7 August 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National Forestnot named
6 August 2005Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestGRAPE VINE
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestELDERBERRY
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Eagar: 4 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Big Ditch Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitsPumiceUnknown
Coon Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Round Mountain Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagar in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019HailEagar$5,000Hail almost the size of a quarter fell from 1120 to 1140 AM. This storm removed leaves off trees and knocked down branches and fruit around town.
July 2013Heavy RainEagar-Heavy rain caused County Road 1126 near Greer to be come impassible due to heavy runoff. The report was received at 655 PM MST.

Every storm recorded in Apache 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
Springerville1.6 miles18
Correjo Crossing4.8 miles17
Rosebud7.7 miles18
Green Spot8.0 miles18
Northwoods10.5 miles18
Greer11.3 miles18
Feaster11.3 miles14
Nutrioso11.7 miles14

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 EagarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q991082The 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 28719. 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.