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Walapai, 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 86401. The Survey maps it on the Kingman Airport quadrangle. It stands 3,307 feet above sea level.

Walapai within Mohave County

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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California going around a curve in the Walapai flats
Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. A train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California going around a curve in the Walapai flats
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Walapai between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,039 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined28
Debris and open burning8
Natural5
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePEKA
29 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
24 September 2008Smoking1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeNORTH
2 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeOLD 66
4 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern Arizona Consolidated Fire District #1NOT NAMED
11 August 2005Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePATE
6 July 1995Smoking3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Walapai: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
SandpitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

21 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walapai in 21 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 15 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2015Flash FloodWalapai$4,000Antares Road was closed due to four feet of water.
June 2016Flash FloodWalapai$2,000Fast flowing water and debris closed Antares Road.
September 2025Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed from Pierce Ferry Road to Highway 66.
January 2023FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed from mile marker 1 to mile marker 22.
March 2023FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed.
September 2023Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Rd was closed from Pierce Ferry Rd to California Dr due to flooding of the Truxton Wash.
July 2022Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Rd was closed from Hwy 66 to Pierce Ferry Rd.
August 2022Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed.
July 2021Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed from Highway 66 to Pierce Ferry Road due to flooding from runoff from storms which occurred hours earlier.
November 2019Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed from Pierce Ferry Road to mile marker 22.
August 2018Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed from Highway 66 to Pierce Ferry Road.
October 2018Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed from Pierce Ferry Road to Route 66.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindWalapai$1,000A spotter reported estimated gusts to 60 mph with one quarter mile visibility in blowing dust. Small limbs and street signs also blew down.
June 2016Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Flooding of the Truxton Wash closed Antares Road.
August 2015Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was closed due to flooding.
September 2014Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Antares Road was flooded and closed at the Truxton Wash.
August 2012Flash FloodWalapai$1,000Ten inches of water and mud flowed down Brigade Drive.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWalapai-The same storm which produced large hail and flash flooding produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph.
September 2009Flash FloodWalapai-Water, rocks and other debris covered several roads in Valle Vista.
April 2015HailWalapai-no account filed
August 2012HailWalapai-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
Antares6.6 miles19
Berry7.9 miles20
Butler8.2 miles20
Hackberry8.5 miles20
New Kingman8.8 miles34
Stockton11.2 miles34
Hilltop12.0 miles27
Getz12.0 miles27

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 WalapaiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14680772The 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 24678. 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.