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Kirkland, Arizona

29 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 Copper Basin Wash. The Survey maps it on the Kirkland quadrangle. It stands 3,930 feet above sea level.

Kirkland within Yavapai County

On record in Kirkland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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 Kirkland between 1993 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
26 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 August 1993Natural60 acresArizona 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
9 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSQUAW PEAK
5 July 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictKIRKLAND
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Kirkland: 6 prospects, 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Pumice, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silica. 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
Comanchero ClaimsLead, Silver, GoldProspect
Jack of DiamondsGold, CopperProspect
Little Mint and Little SpringGold, SilverProspect
Magic MountainVolcanic Materials, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerTuff
Side Bet ClaimsGold, SilicaProspect
Side Bet No. 1 and 2Gold, SilicaOccurrenceVein
Victory GroupSilver, GoldProspect
KirklandPumiceOccurrence
Kirkland QuarryPumiceUnknown

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkland in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindKirkland-A trained spotter measured a peak wind gust of 60 MPH near Kirkland.

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
Kirkland Junction4.2 miles28
Ferguson Place Windmill5.0 miles28
Grand View5.9 miles25
Skull Valley6.2 miles26
Wilhoit6.7 miles30
Walker Place Windmill7.0 miles29
Glen Oaks8.8 miles30
Yava10.2 miles24

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 KirklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q920806The 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 30787. 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.