Rock Crossing, Arizona
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the North Mohave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86432. The Survey maps it on The Grandstand quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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 Mt. Trumbull quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Mt. Trumbull quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS The Grandstand quadrangle1:24000
- 1987 USGS Littlefield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Rock Crossing between 1996 and 2013, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 1996 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Arizona Strip Field Office | CECIL |
| 22 June 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | TWIST |
| 7 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | LONE PINE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trumbull | 21.7 miles | 16 | |
| Tuweep | 25.9 miles | 18 | |
| Colorado City | 26.6 miles | 21 | |
| Cane Beds | 28.2 miles | 21 | |
| Littlefield | 33.1 miles | 19 | |
| Moccasin | 33.4 miles | 21 | |
| Beaver Dam | 33.5 miles | 19 | |
| Indian Moccasin | 33.9 miles | 22 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25310. 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.







