Santa Claus, Arizona

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.

• 1886 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000
• 1892 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
• 1939 USGS Chloride quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1939 USGS Chloride quadrangle1:48000
• 1942 USGS Camp Mohave quadrangle1:250000
• 1944 USGS Chloride quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1968 USGS Cerbat quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Davis Dam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Santa Claus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,634 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Grasshopper Junction
• Oatman
• Berry
• Butler
• Catfish Paradise
• Dolan Springs

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 158 workings within 5 miles of Santa Claus: 68 past producers, 39 occurrences, 34 unknowns, 9 prospects. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santa Claus in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 8 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Mohave County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24602. 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.