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North Mammoth, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the San Manuel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85618. It stands on Tucson Wash. The Survey maps it on the Mammoth quadrangle.

North Mammoth within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of North Mammoth between 1992 and 2017, burning about 283 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
14 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLINDA VISTA
7 August 1995Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
30 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSMELTER
3 August 2000Natural1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRIVER
1 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
27 July 1995Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of North Mammoth: 14 past producers, 5 producers, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silica, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
Black Beauty PropertyManganesePast Producer
Bose MineLead, ManganeseOccurrence
Ford PropertyGold, Lead, Silver, Vanadium, Copper, MolybdenumPast Producer
Iron Oxide ProspectLeadProspect
MammothGold, Lead, Copper, Molybdenum, Vanadium, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Limestone, GeneralPast Producer
Mammoth - St. Anthony MineGold, Lead, Zinc, Vanadium, Silica, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, TungstenPast Producer1879, 1881
Mammoth Gold Mining Co PropertyGold, Copper, Lead, MolybdenumPast Producer
Mammoth Tailings DumpSilica, Silver, Copper, GoldUnknown
Mammoth-TigerGold, Lead, Barium-Barite, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum, Silver, Tungsten, Vanadium, ZincUnknown1879, 1881
MohawkGold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, Molybdenum, Vanadium, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Mammoth in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 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
September 2014FloodNorth Mammoth$30,000Heavy rain which occurred near the headwaters of the San Pedro River in Mexico and also over Cochise County due to Tropical Depression Odile caused significant rises on the San Pedro River. Water eventually made its way north through Mammoth, where the river overflowed it banks. Three homes and rural roads were flooded. Other residences were evacuated as a precaution. Residents were allowed back in their homes in the morning as the water receded. No injuries occurred.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Mammoth$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large dead tree that fell onto a pickup while driving along Owens Pl.
August 2019Flash FloodNorth Mammoth-Between 1 and 2 inches of rain in around one hour between Mammoth and San Manuel caused flash flooding at Copper Creek Road along the San Pedro River.
July 2014Flash FloodNorth Mammoth-Route 77 about 3.7 miles north of Mammoth, AZ was closed at mile marker 117 due to flash flooding. Rainfall in excess of 0.75 inches fell in a short period of time with a slow-moving thunderstorm, causing the road to flood. The same storm produced a storm total of 3.5 inches in Dudleyville, AZ.

Every storm recorded in Pinal 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
Mammoth0.8 miles25
Tiger2.6 miles25
Fordville3.2 miles25
Blake Place8.3 miles24
Sombrero Butte8.7 miles21
Copper Creek9.1 miles19
San Manuel9.3 miles28
Hortons Place10.5 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q122565560The 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 25337. 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.