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Jops Landing, Arizona

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lake Havasu City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86404. The Survey maps it on the Lake Havasu City North quadrangle.

Jops Landing within Mohave County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Jops Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 629 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined102
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Havasu City Fire Departmentnot named
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresColorado River DistrictCAMPBELL
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCAMPBELL
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDesert Hills Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Havasu City Fire Departmentnot named
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHAVASU
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Havasu City Fire Department8006218

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Jops Landing: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Chemehuevis PlacersGoldPast Producer1857
Mexican Or Spanish DiggingsGoldPast Producer
AggregateSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Earth Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Havarin Ranch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Starr Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Pit #8374Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
State Pit No. 8374Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mohave 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
Desert Hills0.8 miles28
Lake Havasu City4.7 miles23
Powell13.4 miles26
Topock13.6 miles26
Franconia14.4 miles26
Catfish Paradise15.3 miles26
Fivemile Landing18.9 miles25
Haviland20.4 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122562339The 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 25304. 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.