Six Mile Crossing, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lake Havasu City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85360. The Survey maps it on the Grayback Mountains quadrangle.

Six Mile Crossing within Mohave County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1923 USGS Signal quadrangle1:250000
1942 USGS Signal quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Bagdad quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Grayback Mts. quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Six Mile Crossing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 3 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Colorado River District	BLACK CANYON
28 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Phoenix District Office	DARYLS
8 August 1998	Natural	15 acres	Phoenix District Office	POACHIE
31 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Phoenix District Office	CENTIPEDE
4 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	HAPPY
31 July 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	BAG
27 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Colorado River District	BURRO 3
12 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Colorado River District	SNAKE 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Oatman

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Six Mile Crossing: 3 producers, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Bentonite, Clay, Dolomite, Magnesite, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bland Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver	Producer	1901, 1957
Burro Creek Clay	Clay	Producer	Saponite
Golden Keys	Copper, Molybdenum	Unknown
Magnesite Deposit	Dolomite, Magnesite, Limestone, General	Occurrence	Dolomite, Limestone, Magnesite
Magnesite Deposit	Magnesite, Calcium	Prospect
Southern Cross	Gold, Copper	Occurrence
Southern Cross Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead	Producer	1932, 1941, 1950
Burro Creek Area Bentonite Deposits	Bentonite	Past Producer	SEDIMENTARY?
Burro Creek Bentonite	Bentonite	Unknown
Little Jimmie	Bentonite	Prospect

Every working recorded in Mohave 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Nothing (historical)	5.7 miles	17
Greenwood	13.4 miles	17
Signal	16.1 miles	18
Wikieup	16.9 miles	17
Cedar	27.8 miles	17
Larneds Landing	41.0 miles	21
Haviland	46.8 miles	16
Yucca	47.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25311. 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.