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Penzance, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Winslow-Holbrook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86025. The Survey maps it on the Joseph City quadrangle.

Penzance within Navajo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Penzance between 1993 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
10 September 1993Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
11 July 2001Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyLITTLE SPR
10 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJoseph City Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
8 March 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeOBED
10 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northeast DistrictBOYSE
10 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresJoseph City Fire Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Penzance: 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Black Rock Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Holbrook BasinSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pit No.1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penzance in 2 storm reports in 2021: 2 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
July 2021Flash FloodPenzance-Flooding was reported on McLaws Road in Holbrook.
July 2021Flash FloodPenzance-McClaws Road was close in Holbrooke due to the flash flooding of the Little Colorado River.

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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
Sierra Plaza Subdivision4.7 miles18
Holbrook5.1 miles18
Rosedale Heights5.4 miles18
Joseph City5.5 miles18
Clearview Heights5.8 miles18
Lisitzky Subdivision6.5 miles18
Manila9.4 miles18
Arntz11.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24556. 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.