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Mountainaire, Arizona

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86005. It lies near Schoolhouse Draw. The Survey maps it on the Mountainaire quadrangle. 1,068 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,801 feet above sea level.

Mountainaire within Coconino County

Population over time

2 figures

Mountainaire fell from 1,119 to 1,068 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
20101,119
20201,068-51 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 30 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

751 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 751 fires within 5 miles of Mountainaire between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,252 acres in total. 194 started naturally. 16 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 ceremony286
Missing data/not specified/undetermined195
Natural194
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning9
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office153761
9 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestWEE
9 September 2007Smokingunder an acreCoconino National ForestSUNDAY
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHighlands Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
8 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestPLANTATION
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestFAREWELL
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresCoconino National ForestHAPPY
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoconino National ForestSMOKEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mountainaire: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Volcanic Materials, Lead. 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
AnitaLead, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder Station Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Limestone OccurrenceLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountainaire in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 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
February 2019Flash FloodMountainaire-Oak Creek in Sedona rose 7 feet between 615 AM and 830 AM. Numerous low water crossings in Oak Creek Canyon were flooded. The creek dropped below bank full by 700 PM on February 4 in Sedona. The river gauge at Page Springs rose 9 feet between noon and 230 PM. At the peak of the flooding at the Page Springs RV Park, a foot of water was flowing through the park. at the peak of the flooding. One large treek and several small trees came down. Red mud was deposited throughout the RV park. The water continued to flow downstream from Sedona into the Verde River where it was no longer a flood issue.
October 2010HailMountainaire-One inch diameter hail fell about two miles south of Mountainaire with heavy rain.

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
Kachina Village1.6 miles30
Fort Tuthill4.2 miles30
Cogdill Center7.0 miles30
Flagstaff7.8 miles30
Riordan8.3 miles30
East Flagstaff9.1 miles31
Munds Park9.7 miles23
Oak Creek Canyon10.8 miles21

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 MountainaireAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2034673The 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 32083. 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.