BlockSaddle, Arizona
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Buckeye census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85333. The Survey maps it on the Quail Spring Wash quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1942 USGS Vicksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Dendora Valley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Phoenix quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Quail Spring Wash quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Little Horn Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Saddle in 2005, burning about 650 acres in total. 1 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2005 | Natural | 650 acres | Phoenix District Office | PAINTEDROC |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saddle in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Saddle | - | Water being released from Painted Rock Dam traveled down the Gila River, flooding several low water crossings between the dam and the Yuma County line. This led to the closures of Poco Dinero Road between Painted Rock Dam Road and Saddle Road as well as Rocky Point Road between Hyder Road and Painted Rock Dam Road. |
| May 2023 | Flood | Saddle | - | Continued releases from Painted Rock Dam led to prolonged elevated flows traveling down the Gila River. As a result of this, several downstream low water crossings between the dam and the Yuma County line remained impassable due to flooding. This led to the closures of Poco Dinero Road between Painted Rock Dam Road and Saddle Road as well as Rocky Point Road between Hyder Road and Painted Rock Dam Road continuing through the month of May. Any damage sustained to these roads due to the prolonged elevated flow in the Gila River is unknown. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Saddle | - | Thunderstorms with very heavy rain developed over the lower deserts to the southwest of Phoenix and northwest of Gila Bend during the afternoon hours on August 16th. Some of the heavy rain fell over higher terrain areas such as the Eagle Tail Mountains; runoff from the heavy rain flowed into area washes such as the Fourth of July Wash, and created flash flooding. According to Maricopa County officials, at 1750MST flash flooding in the Fourth of July Wash flowed across Agua Caliente road making it impassable. County stream gauge data supported the flash flooding; the wash crested at 1.72 feet and that stage corresponded to 560 cubic feet per second of flow down the wash. Fortunately, no vehicles on the road were swept away as the wash flowed over the road. A Flash Flood Warning was in effect at the time and remained in effect through 1945MST. |
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.
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 Q28912677 | 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 24594. 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.
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.