Valle, Arizona
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Williams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86046. The Survey maps it on the Valle Tank quadrangle. 759 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,994 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresValle fell from 832 to 759 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 | 832 | |
| 2020 | 759 | -73 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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 Chino quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1891 USGS Chino quadrangle1:250000, 4 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
- 1962 USGS Valle quadrangle1:62500
- 1983 USGS Valle quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1989 USGS Valle Tank quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
21 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Valle between 1993 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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 | 10 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Williams Volunteer Fire Department | not named |
| 9 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | MIXON |
| 5 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Kaibab National Forest | not named |
| 3 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 18 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | MOLLY |
| 12 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | MILLER WASH |
| 8 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | VALLE |
| 3 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TOUR BUS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Valle: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinder Pits | Pumice | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
6 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Valle in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Valle | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Valle | - | A hanger at the Valle Airport was lifted and moved 100 yards away. This was likely due to a down-burst. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Valle | - | Runoff from heavy rain caused the closure of Highway 64 south of Valle (milepost 208). |
| August 2003 | Hail | Valle | - | 3/4 inch hail was reported at Valle Airport. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Valle | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Valle | - | 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 Valle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6645357 | 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 24672. 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.









