Potter Place, Arizona
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Puerco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85924. It lies in Potter Place Draw. The Survey maps it on the Milky Ranch quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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 St Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS St Johns quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Adamana 1 SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Saint Johns quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Milky Ranch quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Potter Place in 1996, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 April 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milky Ranch | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Paulcell Place | 13.8 miles | 18 | |
| Hunt | 14.0 miles | 18 | |
| Adamana | 14.4 miles | 18 | |
| Greer Place | 14.6 miles | 18 | |
| Pinta | 18.8 miles | 15 | |
| Heap Place | 20.5 miles | 17 | |
| Navajo | 22.5 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24569. 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.








