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Stanton, 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. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yarnell quadrangle.

Stanton 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Stanton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,163 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined19
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
5 September 2006Natural7.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICHIE
10 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire District1817541
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
3 August 2019Natural3.3 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
21 August 2006Natural10 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH HILL
18 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire District1817534

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 73 workings within 5 miles of Stanton: 29 prospects, 16 past producers, 15 producers, 10 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver, 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
Alvarado MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducer1905, 1935, 1943
HartmanGold, Lead, SilverProspect
John SloanCopper, Gold, LeadProspect
JohnsonGold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
MyersGold, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Octave MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer1865, 1895, 1980
Stanton Magnetite TaconiteIron, Manganese, Sulfur, Titanium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, SilicaOccurrence
UranusFluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Calcium, UraniumOccurrenceVein
Uranus, Mizpah,Total WreckFeldspar, Iron, Uranium, Calcium, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Yarnell MineGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanton in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindStanton-The Stanton RAWS station measured a peak wind gust of 63 MPH at 401 PM.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindStanton-The Stanton RAWS measured a peak wind gust of 68 MPH. The time of the gust was estimated using radar.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindStanton-The Yarnell Remote Automated Weather Station reported a peak wind gust of 65 MPH at 1101 PM MST.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindStanton-A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 MPH was measured at the Yarnell RAWS site (4 miles south of the town of Yarnell.
August 2016Heavy RainStanton-The Mesonet Station 4 miles south of Yarnell (QSTA3) recorded 1.80 inches of rainfall.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindStanton-Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house, a barn roof was separated from the barn, one tree was blown down, a large saguaro cactus was blow down, and seven truck loads of broken tree branches were collected.
July 2015Heavy RainStanton-A spotter 10 miles southeast of Congress reported 4.65 inches of rain in an hour and a half.
August 2013Flash FloodStanton-Constellation Road north of Wcikenburg was washed out.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindStanton-A RAWS station near Congress reported peak wind gusts of 60 MPH from a thunderstorm.

Every storm 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
Octave2.7 miles31
Glen Ilah3.8 miles26
Yarnell4.0 miles31
Sand Mill6.1 miles31
Congress Junction6.1 miles26
Congress6.4 miles26
Peeples Valley7.2 miles28
Flores8.6 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24626. 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.