Hillside, Arizona
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Prescott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86321. It stands on Hillside Peak. The Survey maps it on the Hillside quadrangle. It stands 3,858 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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 Congress quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Congress quadrangle1:125000, 3 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
- 1969 USGS Hillside quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Bradshaw Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Hillside between 1993 and 2019, burning about 4,891 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 28 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | GRAPE |
| 20 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Congress Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 20 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District | HILL |
| 13 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 6 July 1999 | Natural | 75 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HILL |
| 5 July 1995 | Smoking | 45 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 31 July 1995 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hillside: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cow Horn Patent | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Mammoth | Gold, Copper, Silver | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillside in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Flash Flood | Hillside | - | Flooding was reported along Highway 96 near Bagdad. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Hillside | - | Two inches of rain fell near Yava. West Eastwood Wash was flowing over a low water crossing eight to ten inches deep and 150 feet wide. The heavy rain lasted for two hours. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillside | - | Threes were knocked down by high winds along State Route 96 (mile marker 18) southeast of Bagdad. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Hillside | - | County Road 15 washed out at mile marker 26 near Yava. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yava | 4.0 miles | 24 | |
| Grand View | 5.0 miles | 25 | |
| Date | 7.1 miles | 25 | |
| Apron Crossing | 8.2 miles | 17 | |
| Hawkins | 10.5 miles | 25 | |
| Kirkland | 10.9 miles | 29 | |
| Ferguson Place Windmill | 10.9 miles | 28 | |
| Piedmont | 12.7 miles | 26 |
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 Hillside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q12891553 | The 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 24459. 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.











