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Perkinsville, Arizona

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mingus Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86324. It lies near Orchard Draw. The Survey maps it on the Perkinsville quadrangle. It stands 3,285 feet above sea level.

Perkinsville within Yavapai County

On record in Perkinsville

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Perkinsville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 28 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
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
6 August 2000Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestDISCOVERY
26 August 2001Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestSYCAMORE
14 August 2002Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestWITTY
10 August 1995Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestTUNNEL
6 July 2018Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestHENDERSON 3
6 July 2018Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestHENDERSON 4
6 July 2018Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestHENDERSON 2
29 July 1997Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestMARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Perkinsville: 8 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Copper, Vanadium, Lead, Calcium. 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
Hell Point 4Limestone, General, Vanadium, Lead, CalciumOccurrenceSedimentary
Hell Point 4Lead, Calcium, Tungsten, VanadiumProspect
United StatesSilica, Copper, Silver, IronPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
United States MineSilica, CopperPast ProducerQuartz
PerkinsvilleLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
PuntenneyLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Storey QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Storey QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perkinsville in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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
March 2023FloodPerkinsville-The Verde River rose above flood state at Clarkdale around 11 PM on March 21 due to rain and melting snow. The flood waters continued downstream into Horseshoe Lake. The water dropped below action stage around noon on March 24. ||The stream gauge on the Verde River near Paulden reported a peak stage of 13.2 feet with a flow of 16,000 CFS at 400 PM on March 22. This is the second highest peak for this gauge. ||Properties between the Verde River and Bates road in Cottonwood south of State Route 89A were reported to have inundated by at least a foot of water by 930 AM on March 22.
July 2021Flash FloodPerkinsville-The Verde River gauge 12 miles north-northwest of Jerome showed a 2.5 foot rise.
July 2018Flash FloodPerkinsville-The Yavapai Flood Control gauge at Perkinsville reported at least a 2.28 foot rise on the Verde River downstream from a thunderstorm that produced heavy rain.
October 2005Tornado (F0)Perkinsville-Radar indicated a tornado in the Secret Canyon area 19 miles east-northeast of Perkinsville. A later storm survey verified tornado damaged trees in this area.

Every storm 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
Bear4.1 miles29
Sycamore5.5 miles30
Mack6.5 miles28
Tapco10.6 miles30
Drake11.2 miles30
Jerome11.3 miles29
Clarkdale11.4 miles30
Centerville12.1 miles30

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 PerkinsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7169074The 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 32803. 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.