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Happy Jack, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86024. It lies near Mule Park. The Survey maps it on the Happy Jack quadrangle. It stands 7,493 feet above sea level.

Happy Jack within Coconino County

On record in Happy Jack

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Happy Jack between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39,632 acres in total. 201 started naturally. 12 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
Natural201
Recreation and ceremony44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2012Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestHUTCH
7 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestUPPER
6 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestJACKS
5 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestLABOR
5 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestBARGAMAN
4 September 1995Natural1.0 acresCoconino National ForestPINEY
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestOWL
3 September 2003Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestBOTTLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Happy Jack: 3 past producers, 3 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
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Happy Jack No. 1 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Happy Jack No. 2 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Happy Jack No. 3 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Happy Jack in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2013: 6 hail, 4 wildfire, 2 funnel cloud, 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
May 2000WildfireHappy Jack$50,000The clover fire near Happy Jack , AZ burned approximately 150 acres in ponderosa pine. A fire truck was engulfed in flames and lost during the fire fighting effort.
August 2013Heavy RainHappy Jack-One inch of rain fell in 45 minutes near Hutch Mountain.
September 2013Funnel CloudHappy Jack-A thunderstorm produced a funnel cloud about 6 miles east of Mormon Lake.
September 2006HailHappy Jack-Nickel sized hail was reported in Happy Jack.
August 2001HailHappy Jack-A spotter reported one inch diameter hail 10 miles north of Blue Ridge Reservoir.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindHappy Jack-Seventy-five to one hundred tress (two to three feet in diameter) in the Blue Ridge area were uprooted or broken off by thunderstorm wind. Two homes also recieved minor roof damage. The wind is thought to be the result of a rear flank downdraft.
August 1999HailHappy Jack-Weather spotters in Blue Ridge measured hail one inch in diameter.
August 1998HailHappy Jack-Weather spotters reported 1.25 inch diameter hail at Buckskin Wash, near Forest Lakes.
May 2002WildfireHappy Jack-no account filed
May 2002WildfireHappy Jack-no account filed
August 2002WildfireHappy Jack-no account filed
July 2001HailHappy Jack-no account filed
September 1997HailHappy Jack-no account filed
July 1996Funnel CloudHappy Jack-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
Allan Lake Landing5.9 miles17
Stoneman Lake6.2 miles22
Coyote Basin Ranch7.0 miles17
Lost Eden10.9 miles16
Tempe Camp11.5 miles17
Lakeview11.6 miles17
Mormon Lake11.8 miles17
Wingfield13.1 miles16

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 Happy JackAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14680375The 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 29736. 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.