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Hunt, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the St. Johns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85924. It lies near Soda Lake. The Survey maps it on the Hunt quadrangle.

Hunt within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Hunt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined12
Natural8
Debris and open burning6
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
9 September 2008Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGREER PLACE
13 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBLUE DRAW
13 August 2011Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeOSO
9 July 2011Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSMOLDER
9 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSODA LAKE
8 July 1992Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National Forestnot named
16 July 2005Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHUNT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hunt: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, 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
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown
Uranium DepositUraniumUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunt in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 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
August 2021Flash FloodHunt-Arizona Department of Transportation reported that Highway 180A was closed due to flooding at mile post 347. Pictures on social media showed water at least a foot deep on roadways in this area.
July 2021Flash FloodHunt-Big Hollow Wash almost overtopped the bridge at Highway 61 west St Johns.
July 2021Heavy RainHunt-A trained spotter 8 miles north of Vernon measured 2.80 inches of rain fall from Friday evening to Saturday morning. There was standing water on the property.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHunt-Strong winds from a thunderstorm knocked down an eight inch diameter tree about 10 mile south of the Petrified Forest National Park.

Every storm 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
Greer Place1.3 miles18
Concho9.4 miles17
Heap Place11.8 miles17
Milky Ranch12.7 miles16
Potter Place14.0 miles16
Saint Johns15.9 miles16
Salado16.7 miles17
El Tule20.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24468. 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.