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Mormon Lake, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86038. It lies near Fulton Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mormon Lake quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,146 feet above sea level.

Mormon Lake within Coconino County

On record in Mormon Lake

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Mormon Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38,532 acres in total. 178 started naturally. 3 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
Natural178
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony33
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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
7 September 1999Other causesunder an acreCoconino National ForestZUMA
6 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestBURT
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMormon Lake Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestLAST
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestFUSE
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestPATCH
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMormon Lake Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestHOLLYWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mormon Lake: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Mormon Mtn. No. 1 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Sedge Spring Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mormon Lake in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016HailMormon Lake-A trained spotter reported 3/4 to one inch diameter hail covering the ground in Mormon Lake.
July 2006HailMormon Lake-One half to three-quarter inch diameter hail covered the ground near Kinnikinick Lake.
September 2002HailMormon Lake-One inch hail was reported in Forest Lakes (40 Miles southeast of Mormon Lake).
October 1998Thunderstorm WindMormon Lake-Thunderstorm winds estimated in excess of 70 mph snapped cleanly numerous pine trees with 36 inch diameters and lengths up to 87 feet in the Gash Mountain area. The height of the breaks ranged from 2 feet to 30 feet AGL.
October 1998HailMormon Lake-no account filed
August 1996FloodMormon Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coconino 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
Lakeview0.9 miles17
Tempe Camp1.1 miles17
Saint Joseph Youth Camp3.0 miles17
Pilgrim Playground3.8 miles17
Rockledge4.1 miles17
Coyote Basin Ranch4.9 miles17
Allan Lake Landing5.9 miles17
Stoneman Lake9.1 miles22

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 Mormon LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28219919The 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 32047. 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.