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Grand View, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Prescott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86332. The Survey maps it on the Bismarck Mesa quadrangle.

Grand View within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Grand View between 1993 and 2019, burning about 3,706 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined8
Natural7
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictCLIFF
4 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 August 2003Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestGRAPE
13 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
11 August 1994Natural2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 July 1999Natural75 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHILL
6 July 1996Natural2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 July 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Grand View: 5 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Copper, Iron, Quartz, Uranium, Mica. 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
Dave 1-4Bentonite, LithiumProspect
Herbert CollumLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, VanadiumProspect
Jack of DiamondsGold, CopperProspect
Lucky ProbeFeldspar, Iron, Quartz, UraniumProspect
Lyles Hectorite MineBentoniteProducer1955, 1986
Peeples ValleyMica, Tantalum, Beryllium, Uranium, Thorium, Niobium (Columbium)Prospect
Cow Horn PatentCopperUnknown
Lucky ProbeFeldsparOccurrenceOrthoclase, Polycrase

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand View in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2019Heavy RainGrand View-Rain began falling around 600 AM and continued all day. The heaviest rain fell during the afternoon. Total rain for the day 4 miles southwest of the Prescott Airport was 1.31 inches. The rainfall report from 2 miles west of the Prescott Courthouse was 2.11 for February 14th. Iron Springs reported 2.76 inches of rain for the day.
July 2017Flash FloodGrand View-The Verde River near Camp Verde rose from 4.01 feet at 345 PM MST to 10.39 feet at 445 PM MST. The fastest rate of rise was from 6.25 feet to 10.39 feet from 430 PM to 445 PM MST.

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
Hillside5.0 miles24
Yava5.1 miles24
Kirkland5.9 miles29
Ferguson Place Windmill6.9 miles28
Date8.8 miles25
Kirkland Junction9.1 miles28
Skull Valley9.4 miles26
Hawkins11.3 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24435. 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.