Two Guns, 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. It lies near Wagon Box Draw. The Survey maps it on the Meteor Crater quadrangle. It stands 5,423 feet above sea level.
On record in Two Guns
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Canyon Diablo Bridgelisted 1988 · 0.2 miles away
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
38 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Two Guns between 1994 and 2020, burning about 211 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 | 22 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern District | RIMMY |
| 21 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | 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 |
| 18 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern District | GUNS |
| 16 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | BAR- T |
| 1 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TRACKS |
| 1 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | CONUNDRUM` |
| 8 June 2001 | Smoking | 2.5 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | 227 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Two Guns in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Guns | - | The ADOT wind sensor at Two Guns measured a peak wind gust of 63 MPH at 743 AM from a thunderstorm. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Guns | - | A thunderstorm produced 64 MPH wind gusts at the ADOT sensor along Interstate 40 at Two Guns at 1253 PM MST. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Two Guns | - | A trained spotter reported 1.75 inch diameter hail 20 miles west of Winslow. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Two Guns | - | The Arizona Department of Transportation wind sensor at Two Guns and Interstate 40 recorded a peak wind gust of 63 MPH at 912 PM MST. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Two Guns | - | One inch diameter hail covered the roadway on I-40 at mile marker 227 about 25 miles east of Flagstaff. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunshine | 3.3 miles | 22 | |
| Rimmy Jims | 3.4 miles | 22 | |
| Canyon Diablo | 3.4 miles | 21 | |
| Meteor City | 8.5 miles | 19 | |
| Dennison | 10.2 miles | 19 | |
| Angell | 12.4 miles | 22 | |
| Leupp Corner | 12.8 miles | 19 | |
| Leupp | 13.3 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 Two Guns | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28842289 | 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 24665. 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.










