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Moccasin, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Mohave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86022. It lies near The Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Moccasin quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,092 feet above sea level.

Moccasin within Mohave County

On record in Moccasin

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Moccasin fell from 89 to 53 between 2010 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
201089
202053-36 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

33 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Moccasin between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,536 acres in total. 23 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
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
2 September 2006Naturalunder an acreSouthern Paiute AgencyDUNE
9 August 2012Naturalunder an acreSouthern Paiute AgencyAULSON
8 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSouthern Paiute AgencyOLD VILLAGE
19 August 2009Naturalunder an acreSouthern Paiute AgencyMOBILE
18 August 2004Naturalunder an acreSouthern Paiute AgencyPASTURE
13 August 2017Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeCANE BED
12 August 2004Natural2.0 acresSouthern Paiute AgencyWILLOW 3
1 August 2004Naturalunder an acreSouthern Paiute AgencyWILLOW 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Moccasin: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Cedar RidgeCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moccasin in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 flash flood. 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 2024Flash FloodMoccasin$2,000Highway 389 was flooded with water, mud, and debris.
July 2011Flash FloodMoccasin$2,000A citizen posted video on YouTube of water and mud flowing over roads in Moccasin.

Every storm 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
Indian Moccasin1.2 miles22
Kaibab1.3 miles22
Cane Beds7.6 miles21
Nagles Crossing10.0 miles21
Sixmile Village10.3 miles22
Booze Crossing10.5 miles21
Colorado City12.8 miles21
Rock Crossing33.4 miles16

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 MoccasinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6019907The 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 8145. 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.