Ferguson Place Windmill, Arizona

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Congress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86332. The Survey maps it on the Peeples Valley quadrangle.

Ferguson Place Windmill within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 28 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.

1887 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1903 USGS Congress quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Congress quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Kirkland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Kirkland quadrangle1:63360
1950 USGS Kirkland quadrangle1:62500
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
1969 USGS Peeples Valley quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Bradshaw Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Ferguson Place Windmill between 1993 and 2018, burning about 104 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
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	4
Smoking	2

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
7 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
6 September 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
26 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
31 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
27 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	PARKER MESA
6 July 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
12 July 2004	Natural	2.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	ROCKY
1 July 1994	Natural	80 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Ferguson Place Windmill: 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silica, Copper, Silver, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
American Kirkland	Gold, Silver, Lead, Vanadium	Past Producer
Buckhorn	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Cuba	Gold, Copper, Silver, Silica, Uranium	Past Producer
Cuba Mine	Gold, Silica, Copper, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1933
Dixie Queen	Feldspar, Mica, Beryllium, Quartz	Past Producer	Beryl, Feldspar, Muscovite, Quartz
Fiesta Group	Molybdenum, Gold, Lead, Silver	Prospect
Jack of Diamonds	Gold, Copper	Prospect
Lawler Peak Area	Lead, Gold, Bismuth	Unknown
Lone Star and Lucky Three	Gold, Tungsten	Past Producer
Mesa Grande	Tungsten	Prospect

Every working recorded in Yavapai 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
Kirkland Junction	3.9 miles	28
Kirkland	5.0 miles	29
Peeples Valley	5.4 miles	28
Walker Place Windmill	5.9 miles	29
Grand View	6.9 miles	25
Rush Place Windmill	8.1 miles	29
Yarnell	8.7 miles	31
Glen Ilah	9.2 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24416. 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.