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.
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
Big Houselisted 1983
Pipe Spring National Monumentlisted 1966
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Pipe Spring Fort, Moccasinfederal building survey, 15 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresMoccasin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 89 | |
| 2020 | 53 | -36 (-40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1886 USGS Kaibab quadrangle1:250000, 9 printings
- 1953 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Colorado City quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Short Creek quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Short Creek NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Fredonia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Moccasin quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
33 since 2000Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Paiute Agency | DUNE |
| 9 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Paiute Agency | AULSON |
| 8 August 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Paiute Agency | OLD VILLAGE |
| 19 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Paiute Agency | MOBILE |
| 18 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Paiute Agency | PASTURE |
| 13 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | CANE BED |
| 12 August 2004 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Southern Paiute Agency | WILLOW 3 |
| 1 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Paiute Agency | WILLOW 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Ridge | Copper | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Moccasin | $2,000 | Highway 389 was flooded with water, mud, and debris. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Moccasin | $2,000 | A citizen posted video on YouTube of water and mud flowing over roads in Moccasin. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Moccasin | 1.2 miles | 22 | |
| Kaibab | 1.3 miles | 22 | |
| Cane Beds | 7.6 miles | 21 | |
| Nagles Crossing | 10.0 miles | 21 | |
| Sixmile Village | 10.3 miles | 22 | |
| Booze Crossing | 10.5 miles | 21 | |
| Colorado City | 12.8 miles | 21 | |
| Rock Crossing | 33.4 miles | 16 |
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 Moccasin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6019907 | 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 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.









