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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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 Chino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Chino quadrangle1:250000, 4 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
- 1962 USGS Valle quadrangle1:62500
- 1983 USGS Valle quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1989 USGS Howard Lake quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HWY 64 MM 201 |
| 8 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | VALLE |
| 26 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HOWARD |
| 13 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | DAY FIRE |
| 11 July 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | LOG |
| 1 July 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | HAWKINS |
| 24 June 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | RANDALL 2 |
| 21 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 265 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | ESPEE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel | |
| Willaims No. 7 Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | Cinders | |
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pits | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pits | Pumice | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Quivero | - | A former NWS employee reported a funnel cloud southeast of Valle. |
| May 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Quivero | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle | 8.8 miles | 19 | |
| Red Lake | 10.7 miles | 21 | |
| Willaha | 16.3 miles | 18 | |
| Pumpkin Center | 16.7 miles | 27 | |
| Cucamonga Junction | 18.9 miles | 21 | |
| Williams | 19.5 miles | 24 | |
| Corva | 19.6 miles | 21 | |
| Williams Junction | 20.2 miles | 24 |
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 Q122557284 | 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 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.









