Turkey Crossing, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies near Beaver Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Knoll Lake quadrangle. It stands 7,356 feet above sea level.

Turkey Crossing within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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.

1887 USGS Verde quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Verde quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1934 USGS Promontory Butte quadrangle1:62500
1939 USGS Promontory Butte quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1952 USGS Promontory Butte quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Knoll Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Payson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Knoll Lake quadrangle1:24000
2004 USGS Knoll Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

768 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 768 fires within 5 miles of Turkey Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,972 acres in total. 225 started naturally. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony	464
Natural	225
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Smoking	30
Arson/incendiarism	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2
Debris and open burning	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
9 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BONITO
9 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WINDY
7 September 2017	Natural	32 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	RIGHT
7 September 2017	Natural	5.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	WHISKEY SPRINGS
6 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	34BRD#4
6 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BUTTE
6 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Coconino National Forest	not named
5 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	RYKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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
Campo Bonito	1.4 miles	26
Mule Crossing	2.3 miles	26
Wiggins Crossing	6.4 miles	17
Victorine Crossing	10.2 miles	16
Kinder Crossing	11.5 miles	16
Horse Crossing	12.2 miles	16
Forest Lakes Estates	13.3 miles	19
Macks Crossing	13.6 miles	16

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 Q30626424

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 35550. 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.