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Gray Mountain, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86020. The Survey maps it on the Gray Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,029 feet above sea level.

Gray Mountain within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Gray Mountain between 1996 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None 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/undetermined6
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
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 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSE CAMERON
7 June 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGRAY
3 June 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHIGHWAY
17 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLAVA POINT
9 May 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGRAY
22 May 2000Smokingunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementCAMERON
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern DistrictGRAY MOUNTAIN
26 April 1996Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gray Mountain: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Paul Huskie No 1 & 2UraniumPast Producer
Uranium Deposit - M002732UraniumOccurrence
Uranium Deposit-M002731UraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gray Mountain in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 funnel cloud. 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 1996Funnel CloudGray Mountain-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Cameron9.5 miles21
Black Falls Crossing16.0 miles19
Tiis Holoni25.5 miles20
Moenave28.0 miles19
Moenkopi28.5 miles19
Sand Springs28.7 miles19
Tuba City29.6 miles19
Hidden Springs Mission30.9 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 Gray MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5598222The 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 5319. 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.