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.
Population over time
3 figuresMesquite 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 205 | |
| 2010 | 416 | +211 (+103%) |
| 2020 | 403 | -13 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 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.
- 1903 USGS Needles quadrangle1:125000
- 1904 USGS Needles quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Needles Special quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Needles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Needles quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1970 USGS Needles NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Needles quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
247 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 189 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Mojave Mesa Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Havasu Refuges Complex | VANDERSLICE |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Mojave Mesa Fire Department | 49999 |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Mojave Mesa Fire Department | 50010 |
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Lake Havasu Refuges Complex | SECTION 14 |
| 4 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fort Mojave Mesa Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 4 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Fort Mojave Mesa Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 4 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fort Mojave Mesa Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mojave Ranch Estates | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Mohave Valley | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Willow Valley | 4.3 miles | 22 | |
| Hardyville (historical) | 6.1 miles | 35 | |
| Mojave City | 6.1 miles | 35 | |
| Arizona Village | 7.9 miles | 25 | |
| Riviera | 9.7 miles | 35 | |
| Oatman | 10.6 miles | 29 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1346709 | The 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.









