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.
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 figuresValentine 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 38 | |
| 2020 | 39 | +1 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 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 Diamond Creek quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Diamond Creek quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1948 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Colorado River District | BIRTHDAY |
| 1 August 1992 | Natural | 6.5 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 6 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | HACKBERRY |
| 6 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado River District | HACKBERRY ASSIST |
| 25 July 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | KROISER |
| 22 July 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 21 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | CLIFF |
| 20 July 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | PLANTER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Daisy | Fluorine-Fluorite, Limestone, General | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Blue Daisy | Fluorine-Fluorite, Limestone, Dimension | Prospect | ||
| Copper Giant Mine | Copper, Gold, Zinc, Beryllium, Silver, Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Giant Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold, Quartz, Beryllium | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Keystone Extension Mine | Copper, Gold | Unknown | ||
| La Suerte | Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Mcbride | Gold, Silver | Unknown | ||
| North Star #1&2 Claims | Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Victoria Mine | Copper, Molybdenum | Unknown | ||
| Walkover Mine | Gold, Copper, Lead, Arsenic, Silver | Past Producer | 1911, 1935 |
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Valentine | $2,000 | Hackberry Road was closed from Truxton Wash to I-40 due to flooding. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Valentine | $1,000 | Hackberry Road was closed from Highway 66 to Main Street. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Valentine | $1,000 | Hackberry Road was closed from Highway 66 to Main Street. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Valentine | $1,000 | Hackberry Road was closed. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Valentine | $1,000 | Hackberry Road was closed from Main Street to Highway 66 due to flooding from runoff from storms which occurred hours earlier. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Valentine | $1,000 | Hackberry Road was closed from Main Street to Route 66 due to flooding. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Valentine | $1,000 | Hackberry Road was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Valentine | $1,000 | Hackberry Road was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Valentine | $1,000 | Flooding of the Truxton Wash closed Hackberry Road. |
| September 1997 | Flash Flood | Valentine | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Valentine | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Valentine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5245035 | 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 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.









