Rare Metals, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Tuba City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86045. It lies near Greasewood Lake. The Survey maps it on the Tuba City quadrangle. It stands 5,174 feet above sea level.

Rare Metals within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1886 USGS Echo Cliffs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1891 USGS Echo Cliffs quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
1956 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Marble Canyon quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Tuba City quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Tuba City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rare Metals between 1994 and 2019, burning about 86 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	30 acres	Hopi Agency	PASTURE CANYON 2
5 August 1994	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	RARE 1
3 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Hopi Agency	SAGE BRUSH
19 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	WEPO WASH
9 June 2012	Fireworks	under an acre	Hopi Agency	PASTURE CANYON I
19 June 2015	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Hopi Agency	PASTURE CANYON
3 May 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Hopi Agency	NE HOUSING I
16 May 2010	Debris and open burning	6.8 acres	Hopi Agency	PASTURE CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rare Metals: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Tuba City Mill	Uranium	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Moenkopi	5.3 miles	19
Tuba City	5.6 miles	19
Moenave	10.7 miles	19
Willow Springs	13.9 miles	20
Hidden Springs Mission	14.0 miles	20
Tonalea	15.0 miles	16
Coal Mine Mesa	16.7 miles	18
Cameron	23.9 miles	21

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.

Wikipedia article on Rare Metals	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18393513	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 9960. 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.