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.
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.
Perkinsville Bridgelisted 1989 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1905 USGS Jerome quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Clarkdale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1944 USGS Clarkdale quadrangle1:48000
- 1948 USGS Clarkdale quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Perkinsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | DISCOVERY |
| 26 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | SYCAMORE |
| 14 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | WITTY |
| 10 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | TUNNEL |
| 6 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | HENDERSON 3 |
| 6 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | HENDERSON 4 |
| 6 July 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | HENDERSON 2 |
| 29 July 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Prescott National Forest | MARK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hell Point 4 | Limestone, General, Vanadium, Lead, Calcium | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Hell Point 4 | Lead, Calcium, Tungsten, Vanadium | Prospect | ||
| United States | Silica, Copper, Silver, Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel | |
| United States Mine | Silica, Copper | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Perkinsville | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Puntenney | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Storey Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Storey Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Flood | Perkinsville | - | 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Perkinsville | - | The Verde River gauge 12 miles north-northwest of Jerome showed a 2.5 foot rise. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Perkinsville | - | 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 2005 | Tornado (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. |
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.
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 Perkinsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7169074 | The 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.













