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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.

Two Guns within Coconino County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

38 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined22
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern DistrictRIMMY
21 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern DistrictTWO GUNS
18 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northern DistrictGUNS
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBAR- T
1 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTRACKS
1 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCONUNDRUM`
8 June 2001Smoking2.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office227

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindTwo Guns-The ADOT wind sensor at Two Guns measured a peak wind gust of 63 MPH at 743 AM from a thunderstorm.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindTwo Guns-A thunderstorm produced 64 MPH wind gusts at the ADOT sensor along Interstate 40 at Two Guns at 1253 PM MST.
June 2015HailTwo Guns-A trained spotter reported 1.75 inch diameter hail 20 miles west of Winslow.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTwo 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 2013HailTwo Guns-One inch diameter hail covered the roadway on I-40 at mile marker 227 about 25 miles east of Flagstaff.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sunshine3.3 miles22
Rimmy Jims3.4 miles22
Canyon Diablo3.4 miles21
Meteor City8.5 miles19
Dennison10.2 miles19
Angell12.4 miles22
Leupp Corner12.8 miles19
Leupp13.3 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 Two GunsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28842289The 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.