BlockPica, Arizona
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Ash Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86337. The Survey maps it on the Yampai quadrangle. It stands 5,249 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1886 USGS Diamond Creek quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Diamond Creek quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1948 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Yampai quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Pica between 1994 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | DIVIDE |
| 27 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | BIG DOG |
| 17 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District | PICA |
| 28 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District | PITT |
| 2 August 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | YAMPAI |
| 13 August 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | YAMPAI DIVIDE |
| 5 July 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | PICA CAMP |
| 5 July 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | DINOSAUR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Wikidata item Q29641601 | 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 9392. 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.