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Shumway, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Snowflake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85901. It stands on Shumway Butte. The Survey maps it on the Taylor quadrangle.

Shumway within Navajo County

On record in Shumway

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

79 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Shumway between 1993 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 8 were 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/undetermined41
Natural20
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLOVE LAKE RANCH
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestLINDEN TANK
11 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestWHITE MOUNTAIN
9 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHWY 77 MP 351
9 August 2003Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestTHISTLE TANK
26 August 2000Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestTHISTLE
18 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHWY 77 LONE PINE DAMN RD
17 August 2002Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestLONE PINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shumway: 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Navajo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shumway in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 2 heavy rain. 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 2016Heavy RainShumway-Heavy rain (1.50 inches) fell from a thunderstorm near Snowflake. Snowflake Police reported rising in the Silver Creek basin south of Snowflake.
July 2013Heavy RainShumway-Two inches of rain caused street flooding in Shumway.

Every storm recorded in Navajo 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
Schoens Crossing2.3 miles15
Robinson Trail Crossing3.4 miles16
Taylor4.2 miles15
White Mountain Lakes Estates5.4 miles19
White Mountain Lake5.6 miles19
Burton6.5 miles16
Snowflake7.4 miles15
Roundy Crossing7.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 34397. 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.