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Parker Strip, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85344. It lies near Empire Flat. The Survey maps it on the Cross Roads quadrangle. 621 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Parker Strip within La Paz County

Population over time

3 figures

Parker Strip fell from 3,302 to 621 between 2000 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
20003,302
2010662-2,640 (-80%)
2020621-41 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Parker Strip between 1992 and 2018, burning about 154 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Fireworks6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
3 August 2013Natural1.0 acresColorado River AgencyBLUE WATER
29 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBuckskin Fire District180490
23 August 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBuckskin Fire District180480
17 August 2013Naturalunder an acreColorado River DistrictMILE MARKER 66
13 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeQUAIL HOLLOW
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBIG DRAW
12 August 2001Natural1.0 acresColorado River AgencyROCKHOUSE
9 July 2014Naturalunder an acreColorado River DistrictCROSS ROADS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Paz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Parker Strip: 17 past producers, 7 occurrences, 6 producers, 4 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, 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
Blue Cloud Copper CoCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Capilano MineSilver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Highline HematiteIronOccurrence
LecourseManganeseUnknown
Lion Hill MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer1943
Sue Manganese MineManganese, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer1925, 1963
Sure ShotHafnium, Uranium, ZirconiumOccurrence
Black Metal Copper MineGold, CopperPast Producer
Blue River PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Capilano MineGold, Copper, SilverPast ProducerChrysocolla, Gold, Malachite, Specularite

Every working recorded in La Paz 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
Cienega Springs2.5 miles25
Bluewater5.0 miles22
Parker6.8 miles22
Planet12.5 miles18
Poston19.0 miles22
Swansea19.0 miles18
Midway19.4 miles18
Bouse22.3 miles19

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 Parker StripAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2052686The 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 2413657. 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.