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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.

Rock Crossing within Mohave County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

3 since 1996

Regional 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
Natural2
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
26 July 1996Natural4.0 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeCECIL
22 June 2001Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeTWIST
7 April 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeLONE PINE

Every fire recorded in Mohave 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
Mount Trumbull21.7 miles16
Tuweep25.9 miles18
Colorado City26.6 miles21
Cane Beds28.2 miles21
Littlefield33.1 miles19
Moccasin33.4 miles21
Beaver Dam33.5 miles19
Indian Moccasin33.9 miles22

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.