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Kirkland Junction, Arizona

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Congress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86332. It stands on Sheppard Wash. The Survey maps it on the Peeples Valley quadrangle. It stands 4,104 feet above sea level.

Kirkland Junction within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Kirkland Junction between 1994 and 2020, burning about 219 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
2 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
31 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
27 August 2010Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePARKER MESA
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictBRISTOL
2 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use41 acresPhoenix District OfficeWINDMILL
9 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRR 84
7 June 2002Equipment and vehicle use100 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCLAY HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Kirkland Junction: 9 prospects, 4 producers, 4 unknowns, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Lithium. 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
American KirklandGold, Silver, Lead, VanadiumPast Producer
BeehiveLead, Semiprecious Gemstone, SilverProspect
Copper CrownCopper, Gold, Silver, Iron, SilicaProspect
Copper Crown MineCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldProducer1915, 1941, 1955
Fiesta GroupMolybdenum, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect
Kirkland QuarryPumiceUnknown
Mesa GrandeTungstenProspect
MohawkCopper, GoldProspect
Side Bet ClaimsGold, SilicaProspect
Side Bet No. 1 and 2Gold, SilicaOccurrenceVein

Every working 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
Walker Place Windmill2.9 miles29
Ferguson Place Windmill3.9 miles28
Kirkland4.2 miles29
Wilhoit5.7 miles30
Rush Place Windmill7.0 miles29
Peeples Valley7.7 miles28
Glen Oaks8.0 miles30
Walnut Grove8.6 miles29

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 Kirkland JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28222397The 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 6721. 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.