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Heap Place, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Johns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85936. It stands on Big Hollow Wash. The Survey maps it on the Zion Reservoir quadrangle.

Heap Place within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

12 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Heap Place between 2009 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSt. Johns Volunteer Fire Departmentnot named
2 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictALEJANDRO
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictCORONADO
2 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRANCH
8 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictZION
21 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictPIONEER
17 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLOWER CARRIZO
17 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCARRIZO WELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Heap Place: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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
Saint Johns5.9 miles16
Salado10.4 miles17
Greer Place10.5 miles18
Hunt11.8 miles18
Concho12.9 miles17
El Tule14.1 miles17
Potter Place20.5 miles16
Richville20.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 29837. 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.