Mint, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Prescott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86305. It lies near Jerome Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Jerome Canyon quadrangle. It stands 4,921 feet above sea level.

Mint within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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.

1887 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1947 USGS Iron Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Iron Springs quadrangle1:63360
1949 USGS Iron Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Jerome Canyon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Mint between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 24 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
Natural	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Prescott National Forest	GRANITE
5 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	T.J.
23 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority	NOT NAMED
13 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority	NOT NAMED
6 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	GRANITE
26 August 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Prescott National Forest	LONG
2 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	BLAIR
17 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stringfield	1.0 miles	26
Williamson	1.9 miles	26
Granite Basin Summer Homes	6.2 miles	27
Chino Valley	7.3 miles	29
Iron Springs	8.1 miles	27
Granite Siding	8.7 miles	30
Prieta (historical)	8.8 miles	27
Tutt	8.8 miles	30

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 Mint	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28222648	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 38637. 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.