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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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 Mt. Trumbull quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Mt. Trumbull quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grand Canyon quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Mount Trumbull NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Mt. Trumbull NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Mount Trumbull quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
64 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 58 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | COX |
| 2 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | KENT |
| 2 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | JUNCTION |
| 16 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | COLLEGE |
| 10 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | CHUCKALITO |
| 9 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | MTTRUMBULL |
| 8 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | COYOTE SPR |
| 8 August 2000 | Natural | 2.7 acres | Arizona Strip Field Office | MOUNT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toroweap Canyon Area | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Toroweap Canyon Deposit | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Gypsum | |
| Toroweap Valley Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | ||
| Uinkaret Plateau Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Unknown Cinder Pit | Pumice | Unknown |
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Tuweep | 2 hurt, $25,000 | Flash flooding at Fern Glen Canyon washed away all of a camping group's equipment and injured at least two people. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Tuweep | $2,000 | Several feet of water flowed over BLM Road 1045. Over an inch of rain fell at the Bar Ten Ranch. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trumbull | 13.7 miles | 16 | |
| Rock Crossing | 25.9 miles | 16 | |
| Oak Grove | 32.9 miles | 16 | |
| Booze Crossing | 37.1 miles | 21 | |
| Indian Moccasin | 37.4 miles | 22 | |
| Kaibab | 37.4 miles | 22 | |
| Cane Beds | 37.7 miles | 21 | |
| Moccasin | 37.8 miles | 21 |
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 Tuweep | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30588235 | 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 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.








