Octave, Arizona

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Congress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85332. It lies near Weaver Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Yarnell quadrangle.

Octave within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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 Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1903 USGS Congress quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Congress quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Wagoner quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Wagoner quadrangle1:63360
1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Wagoner quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Yarnell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Bradshaw Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Octave between 1992 and 2019, burning about 175 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None 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
Natural	7
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2006	Natural	7.0 acres	Phoenix District Office	RICHIE
10 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	8.5 acres	Phoenix District Office	RICH
3 August 2019	Natural	3.3 acres	Phoenix District Office	RICH
17 August 2013	Natural	3.5 acres	Phoenix District Office	RICH
2 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	STANTON
16 July 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Phoenix District Office	LION PEAK
1 July 2008	Natural	1.3 acres	Phoenix District Office	OCTAVE
6 June 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	OCTAVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Octave: 27 prospects, 14 producers, 14 past producers, 10 occurrences. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
John Sloan	Copper, Gold, Lead	Prospect
Johnson	Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Sulfur-Pyrite	Past Producer
Krueger	Clay, Iron, Manganese, Mica	Producer
Myers	Gold, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Octave Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	1865, 1895, 1980
Red Ledge	Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold	Prospect
Stanton Magnetite Taconite	Iron, Manganese, Sulfur, Titanium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica	Occurrence
Uranus	Fluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Calcium, Uranium	Occurrence	Vein
Uranus, Mizpah,Total Wreck	Feldspar, Iron, Uranium, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Yellow Jacket Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	1939, 1959

Every working recorded in Yavapai 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
Stanton	2.7 miles	31
Sand Mill	5.3 miles	31
Glen Ilah	6.2 miles	26
Yarnell	6.3 miles	31
Constellation	7.9 miles	31
Congress Junction	8.3 miles	26
Congress	8.6 miles	26
Flores	8.9 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25258. 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.