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Klondyke, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bonita-Klondyke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85643. It lies near Fourmile Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Klondyke quadrangle.

Klondyke within Graham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Klondyke between 1992 and 2020, burning about 709 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 August 1995Natural1.0 acresGila District OfficeCHIMNEY
29 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMESQUITE
5 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined205 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
10 July 1992Natural10 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresGila District OfficeARAVAIPA CREEK
5 June 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLAUREL
3 June 1992Debris and open burning30 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeKLONDYKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Klondyke: 11 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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
Dogwater MineLead, Copper, Molybdenum, SilverPast ProducerAnglesite, Argentite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Malachite, Plumbojarosite, Wulfenite
Dogwater and Silver CableLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Grand ReefLead, Zinc, Iron, Copper, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Calcium, Silica, VanadiumPast Producer
Grand Reef MineLead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Silica, Molybdenum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-BaritePast Producer1890, 1915
Junction ProspectLead, Barium-BariteOccurrenceVein
Junction ProspectLead, Zinc, CopperOccurrence
La Clede MineSilver, CopperPast ProducerChrysocolla, Malachite, Silver
Laclede MineCopper, SilverPast Producer
QuinnLead, VanadiumPast Producer
Red CrystalGold, Lead, Silver, Vanadium, Zinc, CopperProspect

Every working recorded in Graham County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klondyke in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2009: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
October 2006HailKlondyke$2,000A severe thunderstorm produced penny sized hail resulting in damage to skylights of three homes.
July 2009Flash FloodKlondyke-Heavy rainfall flooded several roadways between Bonita and Klondyke.
August 2005Flash FloodKlondyke-Heavy rain caused flooded roads in the Town of Klondyke including Klondyke Road, which was closed due to the flooding.

Every storm recorded in Graham 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
Aravaipa8.5 miles18
Ellison Place (historical)12.1 miles14
Sunset22.5 miles19
Geronimo22.9 miles13
Emery23.3 miles13
Cork23.5 miles11
Bylas23.5 miles13
Ashurst23.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 42873. 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.