BlockSentinel, Arizona
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Gila Bend census division. The Survey maps it on the Sentinel quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 15 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.
- 1949 USGS Sentinel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Sentinel quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Dateland quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Sentinel quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Sentinel quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
22 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Sentinel between 1992 and 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | SENTINAL |
| 28 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SENTINEL |
| 9 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | DITCH WASH |
| 4 July 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | PARK |
| 19 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 11 July 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | SENTINEL |
| 9 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central District | HANS |
| 4 June 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | CHAINLINK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sentinel in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel | $40,000 | Thunderstorms developed to the southwest of Phoenix during the evening hours on August 16th and some of the stronger storms generated very gusty outflow winds in excess of 60 mph. An employee from the Yuma Fire Department was driving east along Interstate 8 towards Phoenix and as she approached the Sentinel rest area, she reported substantial damage due to a collapsing thunderstorm. The winds produced significant roof, tree and car damage in the area around the rest area, about 2 miles to the west of the town of Sentinel. The winds were estimated to be as high as 80 mph. In addition, hail the size of nickels was reported in association with the thunderstorm. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel | $12,000 | Thunderstorm winds, estimated around 55-60 mph based on radar and a RAWS station, flipped a semi-truck on I-8 near mile post 84 just west of Sentinel. Video from a storm chaser was posted online of the flipped semi around 10:15 PM MST and ADOT reported the eastbound lane of I-8 was closed about an hour later. Thunderstorm winds also produced a dust storm that pushed west along Interstate 8 with social media reports of visibility falling to around 100 feet just west of Dateland. No injuries were reported. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Sentinel | - | Yuma Daily Sun reported that motorists on Interstate 8 had hail damage to windows. The size and time of the apparent microburst were estimated. One woman had a minor injury due to the glass that blew in. |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Sentinel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30595130 | 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 11083. 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.