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Granville, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Clifton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85533. It sits by Final Point. The Survey maps it on the Coronado Mountain quadrangle. It stands 6,686 feet above sea level.

Granville within Greenlee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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 Granville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. 23 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
Natural23
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1993Natural1.0 acresApache-Sitgreaves National Forestnot named
19 September 2000Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestADOT
11 September 2017Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestPIGEON
9 August 2014Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestGRANVILLE
6 July 2017Natural200 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestPINTO SPRINGS
31 July 2012Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestHL SADDLE
25 July 1996Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestMITCHELL
23 July 2000Natural1.0 acresApache-Sitgreaves National ForestCHERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenlee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Granville: 15 producers, 11 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. 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
Granville Area Perlite OccurrencePerliteOccurrence
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lime CapLead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer
Lime Cap GroupZinc, Lead, Vanadium, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Copper, ManganeseProducer1916, 1940, 1941
Morenci MordeniteZeolitesOccurrenceClinoptilolite
Morenci QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Shannon MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Garnet, Iron, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer1875, 1902, 1918
TwigLead, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
Twig MineLead, Gold, Copper, Silver, ZincProducer1915, 1948
XIV GroupCopper, SilverProducer1872, 1937, 1951

Every working recorded in Greenlee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granville in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindGranville-A wind gust to 65 mph was measured at the Trail Cabin RAWS. Time estimated from radar at 1315MST.
January 2008FloodGranville-The Blue River crested 4.5 feet above Bankfull stage due to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Greenlee 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
Spur Cross4.0 miles20
Metcalf (historical)5.4 miles20
Morenci7.7 miles20
Stargo8.4 miles20
Plantsite9.5 miles20
East Plantsite10.4 miles20
Clifton10.6 miles20
Maques Place14.7 miles12

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 Q28221908The 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 39987. 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.