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Parks, Arizona

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Williams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86018. The Survey maps it on the Parks quadrangle. 1,382 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,080 feet above sea level.

Parks within Coconino County

On record in Parks

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Parks grew from 1,188 to 1,382 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
20101,188
20201,382+194 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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

286 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 286 fires within 5 miles of Parks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,561 acres in total. 182 started naturally. 3 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
Natural182
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Recreation and ceremony25
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKaibab National ForestBRANNIGAN
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKaibab National ForestLABOR
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestGOVERNMENT
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestHILL
30 September 2004Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestMOONSET
29 September 2004Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestSHERWOOD
26 September 2000Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestT.O.
21 September 2011Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestSPITZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Parks: 8 past producers, 6 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Bellemont No. 5 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Bellemont No. 6 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Bellemont No. 7 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Garland Prairie No. 1 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parks in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 3 heavy rain, 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
October 2010HailParks$5,000A narrow strip of hail covered the pavement on Interstate 40 near mile post 180. Two cars lost control and slid off the road.
September 2025HailParks-Public reported, via social media, hail in Parks up to the size of quarters.
July 2021Flash FloodParks-Local Law Enforcement reported that the flash flooding left large rocks, trees, bushes, and debris on area roads. Public works was called out to clean up the mess.
July 2021Heavy RainParks-About two inches of rain fell between 1810 and 1854 near the community of Parks. Rain gauge measured 3.31 inches of total rain during the day.
August 2019HailParks-Quarter sized (1 inch diameter) was reported just south of the Parks Exit on I-40.
August 2014Heavy RainParks-A trained spotter 7 miles northeast of Parks reported 4.14 inches of rain in 32 hours with flooding on a forest road near Government Mountain. Another spotter northwest of Parks reported 1.95 inches of rain in about the same time period.
October 2010HailParks-Golf ball sized (1.75 inches in diameter) fell in Parks.
July 2008HailParks-A thunderstorm produced heavy rain and hail in Parks.
August 2008HailParks-Nickel sized (7/8 inch diameter) hail fell in and around Parks. The hail covered the ground like snow. A spotter reported 4 inches of hail on the ground. The wind was gusting to 30 MPH during this storm.
August 2006HailParks-Quarter sized hail fell in Parks for about 10 minutes.
August 1997HailParks-Three quarter inch diameter hail reported by the public and covering the ground to 7 inches deep. Dense fog developed as the hail melted reducing visibility to less than 1/4 mile.
July 2006Heavy RainParks-no account filed
September 1997HailParks-no account filed
September 1996HailParks-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
Maine0.8 miles29
Chalender4.4 miles22
Sherwood Forest Estates5.3 miles22
Bellemont6.3 miles31
Pine Tank6.3 miles22
Bootlegger Crossing8.9 miles22
Williams Junction10.0 miles24
Pumpkin Center10.8 miles27

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 ParksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1360223The 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 32699. 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.