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Paxton Place, Arizona

30 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 86332. The Survey maps it on the Minnehaha quadrangle.

Paxton Place within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Paxton Place between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,932 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
30 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCHERRY CREEK
14 September 2019Natural128 acresPrescott National ForestCHERRY SPRINGS
14 September 2019Natural10 acresPrescott National ForestMCALLISTER
9 August 2006Natural10 acresPhoenix District OfficeFLAPJACK
6 August 2005Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeWAG
26 August 2020Natural10 acresPhoenix District OfficeCROWN POINT
14 August 2012Natural64 acresPhoenix District OfficeLOGAN
10 August 2006Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeFLAPJACK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Paxton Place: 8 prospects, 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. 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
Apache LimestoneLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Ash Creek Magnetite TaconiteIronOccurrence
B O Beryl ClaimsBerylliumProspect
Button MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducer1901, 1942
Camp BirdGold, Lead, SilverUnknown
Fisher PropertyGold, Copper, Lead, VanadiumProspect
Gold Note MineGold, Lead, Silver, Copper, TungstenPast Producer1937, 1946
Joyce K GroupTungsten, Semiprecious GemstoneProspect
Manzanita ClaimsLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, TungstenProspect
Roland ClaimLead, SilverProspect

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wagoner3.9 miles30
Minnehaha4.1 miles30
Lapham4.4 miles30
Chilean Mill5.1 miles30
Lehman Mill5.4 miles30
Copperopolis6.4 miles30
Fort Misery6.6 miles31
Bradshaw City7.0 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 32740. 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.