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Walker Place Windmill, Arizona

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Congress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86332. The Survey maps it on the Walnut Grove quadrangle.

Walker Place Windmill within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 29 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Walker Place Windmill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined9
Natural4
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2006Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHAYS RANCH
2 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 August 1993Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
27 August 2010Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePARKER MESA
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest DistrictBRISTOL
9 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRR 84
7 June 2002Equipment and vehicle use100 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCLAY HILL
4 June 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Walker Place Windmill: 12 prospects, 7 producers, 5 past producers, 3 unknowns. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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
BeehiveLead, Semiprecious Gemstone, SilverProspect
Byron MoyerGold, Copper, SilverProspect
Copper CrownCopper, Gold, Silver, Iron, SilicaProspect
Copper Crown MineCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldProducer1915, 1941, 1955
Fiesta GroupMolybdenum, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect
Mcmahan GroupCopper, Iron, SilverPast Producer
Mesa GrandeTungstenProspect
MohawkCopper, GoldProspect
Navy GroupGold, Copper, Silver, IronProspect
Silver CrownLead, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yavapai 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
Kirkland Junction2.9 miles28
Rush Place Windmill4.7 miles29
Walnut Grove5.7 miles29
Ferguson Place Windmill5.9 miles28
Wilhoit6.0 miles30
Kirkland7.0 miles29
Peeples Valley7.6 miles28
McNary Place7.7 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 35832. 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.