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Fort Misery, Arizona

31 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 86343. It lies near Jones Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Crown King quadrangle.

Fort Misery within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 31 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Fort Misery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,031 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 2 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
Natural58
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestBARTOL
6 September 1997Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestLANE
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestLORENA
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrescott National ForestPOINT
28 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrescott National ForestHORSETHIEF
20 September 2009Natural1.0 acresPrescott National ForestHUMBUG
2 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePrescott National ForestNEEDLE
17 September 2019Natural1.0 acresPrescott National ForestWATSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Fort Misery: 29 past producers, 25 prospects, 15 producers, 11 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
Apache LimestoneLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Bradshaw Fissure Mining Co PropertyGold, Lead, Silver, ZincProspect
Button MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducer1901, 1942
Cougar MineSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Dean GroupGold, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Fat JackQuartz, Semiprecious GemstoneProducerAmethyst
French Creek DepositBarium-Barite, GoldOccurrenceBarite
French Creek DepositManganese, Barium-BariteProspect
Gold Note MineGold, Lead, Silver, Copper, TungstenPast Producer1937, 1946
Jane GroupCopper, Lead, Molybdenum, SilverProspect

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Burro John0.8 miles31
Chilean Mill1.6 miles30
Minnehaha2.7 miles30
Lapham3.4 miles30
Bradshaw City3.9 miles31
Crown King4.7 miles31
South Fort5.3 miles31
Packer5.9 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 29118. 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.