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Leupp Corner, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86047. The Survey maps it on the Tucker Mesa quadrangle. It stands 5,075 feet above sea level.

Leupp Corner within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Leupp Corner between 1993 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. None 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/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
20 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBENNISON
3 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
26 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLEUPP CORNER
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeWOODSY
8 July 1993Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 July 2002Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLOOPY
4 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office344
23 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern DistrictGUNSIGHT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Leupp Corner: 3 unknowns. None of them 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leupp Corner in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2022Funnel CloudLeupp Corner-A funnel cloud was observed along Interstate 40 between mile markers 220 and 240.
June 2015HailLeupp Corner-Two and a half (2.50) inch diameter hail was reported 12 miles east of Two Guns.
July 2008FloodLeupp Corner-Heavy rain from a thunderstorm washed out Hunt Road north of Leupp Corner.
September 2004Flash FloodLeupp Corner-Flash flooding covered Highway 99 to a depth of 18 inches halfway between Leupp and Leupp Corner.

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Moqui2.4 miles19
Dennison2.6 miles19
Meteor City4.3 miles19
LeChee6.3 miles19
Winslow West6.3 miles19
Rimmy Jims9.5 miles22
Sunshine9.8 miles22
Two Guns12.8 miles22

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 Leupp CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28168053The 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 24492. 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.