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Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona

21 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 86336. The Survey maps it on the Wilson Mountain quadrangle.

Oak Creek Canyon within Coconino County

On record in Oak Creek Canyon

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Oak Creek Canyon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29,751 acres in total. 167 started naturally. 7 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
Natural167
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Recreation and ceremony36
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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 2011Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestGRACE
9 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestSAUCER
6 September 2016Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestCRAZY
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestPILE
5 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCoconino National ForestFERNOW
29 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoconino National ForestTRANSFER
29 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTHOMPSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Creek Canyon in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 hail. 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 2001HailOak Creek Canyon-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
Indian Gardens2.5 miles23
Sedona5.2 miles21
Munds Park6.0 miles23
Oak Creek Mobilodge6.4 miles21
Mountainaire10.8 miles30
Kachina Village11.0 miles30
Saint Joseph Youth Camp13.8 miles17
Fort Tuthill14.0 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2805224. 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.

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.