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Tuweep, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Mohave census division. It lies near Broad Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mount Trumbull NE quadrangle. It stands 5,184 feet above sea level.

Tuweep within Mohave County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Tuweep between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,620 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
Natural58
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1995Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeCOX
2 September 1996Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeKENT
2 September 1996Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeJUNCTION
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeCOLLEGE
10 September 1996Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeCHUCKALITO
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeMTTRUMBULL
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeCOYOTE SPR
8 August 2000Natural2.7 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeMOUNT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Tuweep: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Toroweap Canyon AreaGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Toroweap Canyon DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum
Toroweap Valley Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Uinkaret Plateau Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Unknown Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Unknown Cinder PitPumiceUnknown

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuweep in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 2 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2018Flash FloodTuweep2 hurt, $25,000Flash flooding at Fern Glen Canyon washed away all of a camping group's equipment and injured at least two people.
July 2015Flash FloodTuweep$2,000Several feet of water flowed over BLM Road 1045. Over an inch of rain fell at the Bar Ten Ranch.

Every storm recorded in Mohave 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
Mount Trumbull13.7 miles16
Rock Crossing25.9 miles16
Oak Grove32.9 miles16
Booze Crossing37.1 miles21
Indian Moccasin37.4 miles22
Kaibab37.4 miles22
Cane Beds37.7 miles21
Moccasin37.8 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on TuweepAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30588235The 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 25313. 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.