Horse Crossing, 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 Yeager Canyon. The Survey maps it on the C.C. Cragin Reservoir quadrangle.

Horse Crossing within Coconino County

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.

1887 USGS Verde quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Verde quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Blue Ridge Reservoir quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Sedona quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Horse Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,843 acres in total. 240 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	240
Recreation and ceremony	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
30 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	GOODBYE
29 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	RUT
29 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	LAST
28 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	not named
27 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	HUNT
26 September 2000	Natural	1.5 acres	Coconino National Forest	DAM
25 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	PROWLER
23 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Coconino National Forest	CAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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 Horse Crossing: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese. 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
	Blue Ridge Claims	Manganese	Past Producer	1942
	Blue Ridge Property	Manganese	Past Producer	Psilomelane

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kinder Crossing	1.4 miles	16
Macks Crossing	3.1 miles	16
Victorine Crossing	3.4 miles	16
Blue Ridge	3.6 miles	17
Little Spring	5.3 miles	16
Lost Eden	7.6 miles	16
Wiggins Crossing	8.9 miles	17
Jones Crossing	9.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 37838. 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.