BlockSunshine, Arizona
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86047. The Survey maps it on the Meteor Crater quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 22 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.
- 1886 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1899 USGS San Francisco Mtns quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Meteor Crater quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Flagstaff quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Sunshine between 1993 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 1 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 | 23 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 21 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern District | RIMMY |
| 15 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern District | BEACON |
| 5 August 1994 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 28 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern District | TWO GUNS |
| 17 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 16 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 18 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern District | GUNS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunshine in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Sunshine | - | The Meteor Crater Visitor Center reported that at least 4 inches of water was running across Meteor Crater Road in places. Radar estimated that several inches of rain fell across the area. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rimmy Jims | 1.0 miles | 22 | |
| Two Guns | 3.3 miles | 22 | |
| Canyon Diablo | 5.3 miles | 21 | |
| Meteor City | 5.5 miles | 19 | |
| Dennison | 7.2 miles | 19 | |
| Leupp Corner | 9.8 miles | 19 | |
| Old Leupp | 11.6 miles | 21 | |
| Leupp | 12.1 miles | 21 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24635. 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.