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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1938 USGS Klondyke quadrangle1:48000
- 1938 USGS Klondyke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Klondyke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Tucson quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Klondyke quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Mammoth quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Klondyke quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
21 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Gila District Office | CHIMNEY |
| 29 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | MESQUITE |
| 5 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 205 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 10 July 1992 | Natural | 10 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 8 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Gila District Office | ARAVAIPA CREEK |
| 5 June 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | LAUREL |
| 3 June 1992 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 28 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | KLONDYKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 23 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dogwater Mine | Lead, Copper, Molybdenum, Silver | Past Producer | Anglesite, Argentite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Malachite, Plumbojarosite, Wulfenite | |
| Dogwater and Silver Cable | Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Grand Reef | Lead, Zinc, Iron, Copper, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Calcium, Silica, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Grand Reef Mine | Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Silica, Molybdenum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | 1890, 1915 | |
| Junction Prospect | Lead, Barium-Barite | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Junction Prospect | Lead, Zinc, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| La Clede Mine | Silver, Copper | Past Producer | Chrysocolla, Malachite, Silver | |
| Laclede Mine | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Quinn | Lead, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Red Crystal | Gold, Lead, Silver, Vanadium, Zinc, Copper | Prospect |
Storms near this place
3 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Hail | Klondyke | $2,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced penny sized hail resulting in damage to skylights of three homes. |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Klondyke | - | Heavy rainfall flooded several roadways between Bonita and Klondyke. |
| August 2005 | Flash Flood | Klondyke | - | Heavy rain caused flooded roads in the Town of Klondyke including Klondyke Road, which was closed due to the flooding. |
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.
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.










