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Maverick, Arizona

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Apache census division. It stands on Bluff Cienega Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maverick quadrangle.

Maverick within Apache County

On record in Maverick

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

7 surveys from 10 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Maverick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,654 acres in total. 130 started naturally. 1 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
Natural130
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 September 2017Natural153 acresFort Apache AgencyPAIR-O-DICE
16 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyHARRICANE
13 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyTONTO
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyBUTTERFIEL
8 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFort Apache Agencynot named
7 August 1998Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyLOOKOUT
5 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyDUDE RANCH
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyODART CIEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache 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 Maverick: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Uranium. 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
Hansen ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
QuarryStoneUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maverick in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 heavy rain. 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 2016Heavy RainMaverick-The Mesonet station 14 miles east-southeast of East Fork (QLMA3) recorded 2.16 inches of rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Apache 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
Three Forks14.6 miles15
Crosby Crossing15.8 miles15
Kinney Junction17.0 miles10
Boneyard17.3 miles15
Greer19.0 miles18
Hawley Lake19.7 miles10
Northwoods20.3 miles18
Alpine22.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24510. 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.