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Mesquite Creek, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bullhead City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86440. The Survey maps it on the Needles NE quadrangle. 403 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,801 feet above sea level.

Mesquite Creek within Mohave County

Population over time

3 figures

Mesquite Creek grew from 205 to 403 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
2000205
2010416+211 (+103%)
2020403-13 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

247 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 247 fires within 5 miles of Mesquite Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,334 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 12 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/undetermined189
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFort Mojave Mesa Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Havasu Refuges ComplexVANDERSLICE
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Mojave Mesa Fire Department49999
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Mojave Mesa Fire Department50010
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresLake Havasu Refuges ComplexSECTION 14
4 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFort Mojave Mesa Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
4 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFort Mojave Mesa Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFort Mojave Mesa Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave 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
Mojave Ranch Estates2.0 miles22
Mohave Valley2.6 miles22
Willow Valley4.3 miles22
Hardyville (historical)6.1 miles35
Mojave City6.1 miles35
Arizona Village7.9 miles25
Riviera9.7 miles35
Oatman10.6 miles29

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 Mesquite CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1346709The 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 1853162. 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.