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Quivero, Arizona

19 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. The Survey maps it on the Howard Lake quadrangle.

Quivero within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Quivero between 1992 and 2014, burning about 273 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/undetermined5
Natural4
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
2 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHWY 64 MM 201
8 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeVALLE
26 July 2006Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHOWARD
13 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDAY FIRE
11 July 2001Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestLOG
1 July 2008Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestHAWKINS
24 June 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKaibab National ForestRANDALL 2
21 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined265 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeESPEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Quivero: 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Willaims No. 7 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerCinders
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitsPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitsPumiceUnknown

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quivero in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 2 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Funnel CloudQuivero-A former NWS employee reported a funnel cloud southeast of Valle.
May 2019Funnel CloudQuivero-A picture of a funnel cloud was posted on social media. The location was estimated from radar at that time. The funnel was observed for at least 13 minutes from near Williams.

Every storm 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
Valle8.8 miles19
Red Lake10.7 miles21
Willaha16.3 miles18
Pumpkin Center16.7 miles27
Cucamonga Junction18.9 miles21
Williams19.5 miles24
Corva19.6 miles21
Williams Junction20.2 miles24

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 Q122557284The 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 33295. 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.