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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.

Hillside within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

24 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined9
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 August 2003Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestGRAPE
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCongress Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictHILL
13 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 July 1999Natural75 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHILL
5 July 1995Smoking45 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
31 July 1995Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cow Horn PatentCopperUnknown
MammothGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2022Flash FloodHillside-Flooding was reported along Highway 96 near Bagdad.
August 2017Heavy RainHillside-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 2015Thunderstorm WindHillside-Threes were knocked down by high winds along State Route 96 (mile marker 18) southeast of Bagdad.
August 2014Flash FloodHillside-County Road 15 washed out at mile marker 26 near Yava.

Every storm recorded in Yavapai 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
Yava4.0 miles24
Grand View5.0 miles25
Date7.1 miles25
Apron Crossing8.2 miles17
Hawkins10.5 miles25
Kirkland10.9 miles29
Ferguson Place Windmill10.9 miles28
Piedmont12.7 miles26

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 HillsideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12891553The 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.