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Grasshopper Junction, Arizona

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kingman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86413. The Survey maps it on the Grasshopper Junction quadrangle.

Grasshopper Junction within Mohave County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Grasshopper Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,737 acres in total. 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Natural28
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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 1995Natural20 acresPhoenix District OfficeELK
28 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 September 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColorado River DistrictWHEEL
2 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado River DistrictONE TREE
6 August 1993Natural500 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 August 1993Natural1,668 acresPhoenix District OfficeJUNCTION
6 August 1993Natural10 acresPhoenix District OfficeSUGARLOAF
6 August 1993Natural5.0 acresPhoenix District OfficePASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 92 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 92 workings within 5 miles of Grasshopper Junction: 48 past producers, 17 unknowns, 16 occurrences, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur-Pyrite, Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Lead, 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
Altata MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum, ArsenicPast ProducerVein
Argyle MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Copper, ArsenicProducerVein
AuroraLead, Vanadium, Gold, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Aurora MineVanadium, Lead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Bay StateCopper, Silver, Gallium, Gold, Indium, Lead, ZincProspect
Blackfoot MineSilver, Zinc, Sulfur-Pyrite, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Dardanelles ProspectGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, ArsenicOccurrenceVein
Distaff MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, MolybdenumPast Producer1944
Distaff MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
El OroLead, Silver, Zinc, Antimony, Copper, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mohave 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
Chloride3.4 miles32
Santa Claus4.8 miles32
Cerbat9.1 miles32
Stockton10.8 miles34
Golden Valley12.1 miles27
Dolan Springs13.5 miles29
New Kingman16.1 miles34
Butler17.6 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on Grasshopper JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5597539The 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 24437. 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.