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Sunrise Springs, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86505. It stands on Big Wilderness Wash. The Survey maps it on the Sunrise Springs quadrangle.

Sunrise Springs within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

19 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise Springs between 2001 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning10
Natural2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementW CORNFIELDS
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementSUNRISE SPRINGS
12 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementN SUNRISE SPRINGS
3 July 2001Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementNAVAJOST
22 July 2006Naturalunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-06-0529
17 July 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-827
15 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-811
13 July 2005Smokingunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementGFD-05-802

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Apache County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sunrise Springs: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
QuarryStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Apache 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
Cornfields4.9 miles16
Steamboat Canyon11.4 miles16
Steamboat11.6 miles16
Burnside12.0 miles16
Toyei12.3 miles16
Ganado13.1 miles16
Klagetoh13.5 miles16
Tsintaa Yiti Ii15.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24633. 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.