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Piedmont, Arizona

26 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 85332. The Survey maps it on the Congress quadrangle. It stands 3,340 feet above sea level.

Piedmont within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Piedmont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,136 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined23
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
14 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use50 acresPhoenix District OfficeQUARRY
6 August 1994Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCongress Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
27 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCongress Fire Districtnot named
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 August 2020Natural2.3 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictDATE CREEK
23 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
17 August 2015Natural12 acresPhoenix District OfficeCONGRESS

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 Piedmont: 9 past producers, 6 producers, 6 prospects, 4 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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
Congres Mine, Patented 878Gold, Copper, Feldspar, Lead, Silver, UraniumPast Producer1887
Congress ExtensionCopper, Gold, SilverProducer
Congress FeldsparFeldsparOccurrenceFeldspar
Congress MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, UraniumPast Producer1883, 1887, 1950
Golden WaveCopper, Lead, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
Golden Wave MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincProducer1934, 1938
MonicaGold, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Mountain ViewGold, MolybdenumProspect
Santa ClausBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Alaska MineGold, Silver, Lead, ZincProducer1904, 1936, 1950

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
Hawkins2.8 miles25
Congress5.3 miles26
Congress Junction5.4 miles26
Glen Ilah5.8 miles26
Date6.0 miles25
Yarnell6.3 miles31
Peeples Valley7.6 miles28
Stanton8.8 miles31

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 Q3382640The 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 24560. 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.