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Greer, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Eagar-Springerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85927. It lies near Amberon Flat. The Survey maps it on the Greer quadrangle. 58 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,356 feet above sea level.

Greer within Apache County

On record in Greer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Greer grew from 41 to 58 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201041
202058+17 (+41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Greer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,111 acres in total. 131 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
Natural131
Recreation and ceremony37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use10
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2020Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestMARBLE
6 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestSEWER POND
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestGREER C
26 September 2004Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestBADGER
25 September 2004Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestBETWEEN
22 September 2014Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestBENNY CREEK
16 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestDEAD HORSE
15 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestHOT SAW #4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greer: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
Benny Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitsPumiceUnknown
Lang Creek Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greer in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flood. 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 1996FloodGreer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Apache 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
Northwoods1.3 miles18
Crosby Crossing9.1 miles15
Rosebud10.2 miles18
Eagar11.3 miles18
Springerville12.5 miles18
Green Spot12.7 miles18
Three Forks13.2 miles15
Boneyard13.4 miles15

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 GreerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476638The 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 29593. 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.