Troweek, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 2005. It stands in the Eagar-Springerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85932. It stands on E L C Creek. The Survey maps it on the Escudilla Mountain quadrangle. It stands 8,448 feet above sea level.

Troweek within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1922 USGS Nutrioso quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Alpine quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Clifton quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Nutrioso quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Escudilla Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Escudilla Mountain quadrangle1:24000
2005 USGS Escudilla Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Troweek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 569 acres in total. 58 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
Natural	58
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	SKUNK
20 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Gila National Forest	ROMERO
2 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	DRIZZLE
2 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	LITTLE CREEK
6 August 1994	Natural	5.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Fort Apache Agency	BONITO CRK
28 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	ELC FLAT
16 August 1994	Natural	5.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Feaster	6.2 miles	14
Alpine	7.1 miles	14
Nutrioso	8.1 miles	14
Boneyard	11.7 miles	15
Rosebud	12.0 miles	18
Correjo Crossing	13.6 miles	17
Three Forks	14.4 miles	15
Crosby Crossing	15.1 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q30625679

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 39177. 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.