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Valentine, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Kingman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86437. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valentine quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,802 feet above sea level.

Valentine within Mohave County

On record in Valentine

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Valentine grew from 38 to 39 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201038
202039+1 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Valentine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 418 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 September 2008Naturalunder an acreColorado River DistrictBIRTHDAY
1 August 1992Natural6.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHACKBERRY
6 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictHACKBERRY ASSIST
25 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeKROISER
22 July 1993Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 July 2005Naturalunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeCLIFF
20 July 2005Naturalunder an acrePhoenix District OfficePLANTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Valentine: 6 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Copper. 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
Blue DaisyFluorine-Fluorite, Limestone, GeneralOccurrenceVein
Blue DaisyFluorine-Fluorite, Limestone, DimensionProspect
Copper Giant MineCopper, Gold, Zinc, Beryllium, Silver, SilicaPast Producer
Copper Giant ProspectCopper, Silver, Gold, Quartz, BerylliumPast ProducerVein
Keystone Extension MineCopper, GoldUnknown
La SuerteCopper, Gold, Silver, LeadPast Producer
McbrideGold, SilverUnknown
North Star #1&2 ClaimsGold, SilverProspect
Victoria MineCopper, MolybdenumUnknown
Walkover MineGold, Copper, Lead, Arsenic, SilverPast Producer1911, 1935

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valentine in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
July 2016Flash FloodValentine$2,000Hackberry Road was closed from Truxton Wash to I-40 due to flooding.
January 2023FloodValentine$1,000Hackberry Road was closed from Highway 66 to Main Street.
August 2022Flash FloodValentine$1,000Hackberry Road was closed from Highway 66 to Main Street.
August 2022Flash FloodValentine$1,000Hackberry Road was closed.
July 2021Flash FloodValentine$1,000Hackberry Road was closed from Main Street to Highway 66 due to flooding from runoff from storms which occurred hours earlier.
August 2021Flash FloodValentine$1,000Hackberry Road was closed from Main Street to Route 66 due to flooding.
July 2018Flash FloodValentine$1,000Hackberry Road was closed due to flooding.
July 2017Flash FloodValentine$1,000Hackberry Road was closed due to flooding.
June 2016Flash FloodValentine$1,000Flooding of the Truxton Wash closed Hackberry Road.
September 1997Flash FloodValentine-The Bureau of Indian Affairs reported flooding between Truxton and Valentine with Valentine wash running quite full. The cemetery road in Valentine was flooded but no major damage was observed.
July 2017HailValentine-no account filed

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
Crozier2.6 miles20
Hackberry3.9 miles20
Antares8.3 miles19
Truxton8.4 miles20
Walapai12.4 miles20
Peach Springs15.7 miles19
Berry19.1 miles20
Butler19.6 miles20

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 ValentineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5245035The 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 13160. 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.