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Glen Ilah, Arizona

26 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 85362. It lies near Cottonwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Congress quadrangle.

Glen Ilah within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Glen Ilah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,180 acres in total. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
5 September 2006Natural7.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICHIE
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
10 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire District1817541
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
3 August 2019Natural3.3 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
21 August 2006Natural10 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Glen Ilah: 25 prospects, 15 producers, 13 past producers, 8 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Copper, 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
Alvarado MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducer1905, 1935, 1943
Charlie Brown ClaimsCopper, GoldOccurrence
HartmanGold, Lead, SilverProspect
John SloanCopper, Gold, LeadProspect
JohnsonGold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
Mountain ViewGold, MolybdenumProspect
MyersGold, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Santa ClausBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Stanton Magnetite TaconiteIron, Manganese, Sulfur, Titanium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, SilicaOccurrence
UranusFluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Calcium, UraniumOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

7 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Ilah in 7 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 3 heavy rain, 3 flash flood, 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 2018Flash FloodGlen Ilah-Highway 89 was closed in both directions at mile marker 277.4 because of flooding.
June 2016HailGlen Ilah-Quarter sized hail was reported in Yarnell with brief heavy rain.
August 2016Flash FloodGlen Ilah-Heavy rain caused mud and debris (8 to 12 inches deep) to flow over a few roads in Yarnell. A fence around a home was destroyed by the mud and debris.
August 2016Heavy RainGlen Ilah-The Mesonet gauge in Yarnell recorded 2.17 inches of rainfall.
August 2016Flash FloodGlen Ilah-Two feet of water moved through a restaurant, the Yarnell Post Office was inundated with water, and portions of Highway 89 was close due to debris and mud.
July 2015Heavy RainGlen Ilah-An inch of rain fell in one hour in Yarnell.
September 2014Heavy RainGlen Ilah-Very heavy rain fell for 10 to 15 minutes with mostly pea sized hail. Some hail was 1/2 inch in diameter. The heavy rain flooded the yards.

Every storm 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
Yarnell0.8 miles31
Stanton3.8 miles31
Peeples Valley4.1 miles28
Congress Junction5.8 miles26
Piedmont5.8 miles26
Congress6.1 miles26
Octave6.2 miles31
Hawkins8.4 miles25

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.

Wikidata item Q122567644The 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 5057. 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.