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Lake Montezuma, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Camp Verde-Sedona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86335. It stands on Russell Wash. The Survey maps it on the Lake Montezuma quadrangle. 5,111 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,461 feet above sea level.

Lake Montezuma within Yavapai County

Population over time

3 figures

Lake Montezuma grew from 3,344 to 5,111 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20003,344
20104,706+1,362 (+41%)
20205,111+405 (+9%)

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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Lake Montezuma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined132
Equipment and vehicle use40
Natural33
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestINTERSECTION
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestLAWRENCE CROSSING
7 September 2010Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestWINTER
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoconino National ForestHIGH
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoconino National ForestSUNSET
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMIDDLE VERDE
29 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office153002
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined124 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictCRESOTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lake Montezuma: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
B and B Materials Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel, Sand
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Montezuma in 1 storm report in 1994: 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 1994Thunderstorm WindLake Montezuma-A storage shed was damaged by thunderstorm winds gusting to 79 mph.

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
McGuireville2.1 miles21
Rimrock2.1 miles22
Lawrence Crossing2.8 miles22
Mesa Verde Estates5.5 miles21
Fort River Caves5.7 miles21
Verde River Meadows One6.0 miles21
Tres Rios6.0 miles21
Middle Verde6.1 miles21

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 Lake MontezumaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2703146The 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 30844. 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.