Groom Creek, Arizona

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

• Rock Houselisted 1994

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.

• 1887 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
• 1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1903 USGS Bradshaw Mountains quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1947 USGS Mt. Union quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Mt. Union quadrangle1:63360
• 1949 USGS Mt. Union quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Groom Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Bradshaw Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 509 fires within 5 miles of Groom Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,889 acres in total. 187 started naturally. 25 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Breezy Pines
• Walker
• Ponderosa Park
• Oak Knoll Village
• Potato Patch
• Juniper Heights

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 162 workings within 5 miles of Groom Creek: 74 past producers, 46 producers, 24 prospects, 12 unknowns. 47 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Groom Creek in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Yavapai County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 29613. 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.