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Rye, Arizona

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85541. It lies near Hog Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Gisela quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,133 feet above sea level.

Rye within Gila County

Population over time

2 figures

Rye grew from 77 to 104 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201077
2020104+27 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Rye between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,178 acres in total. 38 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/undetermined66
Equipment and vehicle use62
Natural38
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Other causes1
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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestBLUE
25 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
25 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.7 acresTonto National ForestBLACK
23 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestMILL
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestPEACE
10 September 2009Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestMOORE
1 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTonto National ForestHOG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Rye: 15 prospects, 7 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Gold, Copper, Manganese. 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
Black Mtn HematiteIronProspect
Blech GroupBarium-Barite, Gold, SilverProspect
Mountain Cons Mining and MillingCopper, Silver, Gold, VanadiumProspect
OsbornAsbestos, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Ox Bow MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Vanadium, Fluorine-FluoriteProducer1875, 1916, 1936
Oxbow MineGold, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1876, 1916
PeacockSilver, Copper, Gold, MercuryProspect
ZuluSilver, Gold, Barium-BariteProducer
Zulu MineGold, Copper, Silver, Lead, VanadiumProducer1878, 1940
Basic Minerals PropertyMercuryProspect

Every working recorded in Gila County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rye in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 3 heavy rain, 2 flash flood. 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 2018Heavy RainRye-A trained spotter reported 1.61 inches of rain in around an hour. Dime sized (3/4 inch diameter) hail also fell.
August 2018Flash FloodRye-Rye Creek flooded Highway 87 at mile marker 241.
February 2015Heavy RainRye-Between 1.50 and 1.55 inches of rain fell over portions of Northern Gila County northeast of Payson. Pine received 1.26 inches of rain. East Verde River was running high...but not flooding.
July 2004Flash FloodRye-Heavy rain over the Willow Fire burned area caused massive mudsildes and flooding over Highway 87 near mile post 231. The mud and debris covered the road 4 to 5 feet deep over an area 40 feet wide and 300 yards long. Four cars were trapped in the mud and one was turned on its side. Water was also flowing over car hoods on the Highway 87 near milepost 235. The road was closed for 3 hours.
January 2005Heavy RainRye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gila 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
Gisela4.0 miles23
Oxbow Estates5.1 miles22
Jakes Corner7.1 miles23
Payson8.5 miles22
Fort McDonald8.7 miles22
Gallups9.1 miles22
Coffeepot10.1 miles22
Star Valley11.2 miles23

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 RyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709541The 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 33899. 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.