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Ehrenberg, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85334. It lies near Parker Valley. The Survey maps it on the Blythe quadrangle. 763 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Ehrenberg within La Paz County

Population over time

3 figures

Ehrenberg fell from 1,357 to 763 between 2000 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
20001,357
20101,470+113 (+8%)
2020763-707 (-48%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Ehrenberg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,901 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined61
Debris and open burning23
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central DistrictCOMBER
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictCOMBER ASSIST
8 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL 14854
30 September 1995Smokingunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
24 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 2750
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRiverside Unit8TH AV BLYT
19 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRiverside UnitLOCAL
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRiverside Unit22ND AV / INTAKE BL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Paz County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ehrenberg: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold. 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
Baker Copper Co.Copper, SilverOccurrence
La Paz PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer
Goodman WashSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Midland Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in La Paz County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ehrenberg in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996Flash FloodEhrenberg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in La Paz 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
Olive City (historical)0.5 miles21
Morgantown4.9 miles25
La Paz (historical)7.4 miles25
La Paz Valley15.1 miles17
Quartzsite16.2 miles17
Cibola21.2 miles22
Plomosa21.7 miles18
Poston27.5 miles22

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 EhrenbergAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1299923The 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 4361. 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.