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Pine Tank, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Williams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86046. It lies near Pine Hill. The Survey maps it on the Davenport Hill quadrangle.

Pine Tank within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Pine Tank between 1992 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. 183 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural183
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony27
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2000Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestQUARRY
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestBEACON
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestBOX
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKaibab National ForestLABOR
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestROSILDA
3 September 2012Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestSCHOLZ
3 September 1996Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestDOG
29 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKaibab National ForestMONDAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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 Pine Tank: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
Cinder PitsPumiceUnknown
West SideVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
WestsidePumicePast Producer
Williams No. 10 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders

Every working recorded in Coconino 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
Sherwood Forest Estates1.1 miles22
Chalender2.2 miles22
Bootlegger Crossing2.6 miles22
Williams Junction3.7 miles24
Parks6.3 miles29
Williams6.6 miles24
Maine6.8 miles29
Red Lake10.7 miles21

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 Q122545719The 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 37991. 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.