Mountain Meadows, Arizona

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85541. The Survey maps it on the Promontory Butte quadrangle.

Mountain Meadows within Gila County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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 Verde quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Verde quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1934 USGS Promontory Butte quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Promontory Butte quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1952 USGS Promontory Butte quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Promontory Butte quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Payson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Promontory Butte quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

819 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 819 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,609 acres in total. 308 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony	354
Natural	308
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65
Smoking	41
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Debris and open burning	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Fireworks	5
Other causes	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 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WINDY
8 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	PROMONTORY BUTTE
6 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	34BRD#4
6 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BUTTE
5 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	RYKER
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	SEE
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Christopher-Kohl's Fire District	NOT NAMED
4 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tonto National Forest	GRADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Meadows: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Christopher Mtn Hematite	Iron	Occurrence
Goose Egg Claim	Gold	Prospect
Mormon Lake Uranium Claims	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Gila 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
See Canyon Summer Homes	0.5 miles	27
Mountain Meadow	0.5 miles	27
Christopher Creek	1.0 miles	27
Hunter Creek Ranch	1.8 miles	27
Bear Flat	3.9 miles	27
Kohls Ranch	4.4 miles	27
Sleepy Hollow	4.6 miles	19
Tonto Estate	4.9 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 40862. 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.