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Forest Lakes Estates, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85931. It lies near Saint Joe Ridge. The Survey maps it on the O W Point quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,562 feet above sea level.

Forest Lakes Estates within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

492 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 492 fires within 5 miles of Forest Lakes Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,751 acres in total. 240 started naturally. 9 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
Natural240
Recreation and ceremony171
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Smoking17
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2001Fireworks4.0 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestMOSQUITO
9 September 2001Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestNELSON
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreForest Lakes Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreForest Lakes Fire Department236
8 September 2009Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestFULTON
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreForest Lakes Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
7 September 2011Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestJERSEY
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National Forest172 ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Forest Lakes Estates: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, 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
Campbell GroupManganesePast ProducerPsilomelane
Denison GroupManganesePast Producer
Denison GroupManganesePast ProducerPsilomelane
Hill Crest GroupManganesePast ProducerPsilomelane
Mesa Verde Group and Other ClaimsManganesePast ProducerPsilomelane
Mesa Verde No5-7,Pat.No4442ManganesePast Producer
Rainbow GroupManganesePast ProducerPsilomelane
Rainbow GroupManganesePast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Turkey Crossing13.3 miles26
Mule Crossing13.4 miles26
Campo Bonito14.7 miles26
Wiggins Crossing15.8 miles17
Durfee Crossing16.2 miles17
Mormon Crossing19.2 miles17
Babbit Winter19.8 miles16
Lower Tillman20.0 miles16

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 Forest Lakes EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5469015The 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 37795. 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.