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Sand Mill, Arizona

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Congress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85332. The Survey maps it on the Sam Powell Peak quadrangle.

Sand Mill within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

16 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Sand Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural1

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
24 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeMP 261
30 July 1992Naturalunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeMARTIN
25 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeWEAVER
14 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeTOWERS
1 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeFLORES
6 June 1992Smokingunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeOCTAVE
25 June 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTAYLOR
20 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeWEAVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Sand Mill: 8 prospects, 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Feldspar, Mica, Iron. 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
Iron CityGold, Silver, Iron, CalciumOccurrenceVein
Iron CityIron, Limestone, Dimension, ManganeseProspect
KruegerClay, Iron, Manganese, MicaProducer
Old LyonSilver, GoldProspect
Oro Grande MineGold, Silver, CopperProducer1900, 1904, 1932
Santa MargaritaIron, Manganese, TitaniumProspect
Burchfield FeldsparFeldspar, MicaOccurrenceFeldspar, Muscovite
Burchfield FeldsparFeldspar, MicaOccurrence
Black Rock Group ProspectManganeseProducerPyrolusite
Black TopManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Yavapai 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
Flores4.2 miles26
Octave5.3 miles31
Stanton6.1 miles31
Congress Junction7.9 miles26
Congress8.1 miles26
Constellation8.6 miles31
Glen Ilah9.5 miles26
Yarnell9.9 miles31

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24600. 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.