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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 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 Congress quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Bradshaw Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
42 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | RICHIE |
| 30 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 10 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.5 acres | Phoenix District Office | RICH |
| 8 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yarnell Fire District | 1817541 |
| 4 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yarnell Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 3 August 2019 | Natural | 3.3 acres | Phoenix District Office | RICH |
| 24 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yarnell Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 21 August 2006 | Natural | 10 acres | Phoenix District Office | RICH HILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 65 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alvarado Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper | Producer | 1905, 1935, 1943 | |
| Charlie Brown Claims | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Hartman | Gold, Lead, Silver | Prospect | ||
| John Sloan | Copper, Gold, Lead | Prospect | ||
| Johnson | Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | ||
| Mountain View | Gold, Molybdenum | Prospect | ||
| Myers | Gold, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Santa Claus | Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | ||
| Stanton Magnetite Taconite | Iron, Manganese, Sulfur, Titanium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Uranus | Fluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Calcium, Uranium | Occurrence | Vein |
Storms near this place
7 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Glen Ilah | - | Highway 89 was closed in both directions at mile marker 277.4 because of flooding. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Glen Ilah | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Yarnell with brief heavy rain. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Glen 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 2016 | Heavy Rain | Glen Ilah | - | The Mesonet gauge in Yarnell recorded 2.17 inches of rainfall. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Glen 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 2015 | Heavy Rain | Glen Ilah | - | An inch of rain fell in one hour in Yarnell. |
| September 2014 | Heavy Rain | Glen 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yarnell | 0.8 miles | 31 | |
| Stanton | 3.8 miles | 31 | |
| Peeples Valley | 4.1 miles | 28 | |
| Congress Junction | 5.8 miles | 26 | |
| Piedmont | 5.8 miles | 26 | |
| Congress | 6.1 miles | 26 | |
| Octave | 6.2 miles | 31 | |
| Hawkins | 8.4 miles | 25 |
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 Q122567644 | The 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.











