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Walnut Grove, 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.

Walnut Grove within Yavapai County

On record in Walnut Grove

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

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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Grove between 1993 and 2019, burning about 7,624 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 August 1993Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
4 August 2004Natural15 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeWALNUT
31 August 2011Natural5.0 acresPrescott National ForestPOLE
2 August 2000Natural5.0 acresPrescott National ForestMCNARY
30 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined52 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeFRENCH
26 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
24 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
15 July 2019Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestBATTLESHIP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Grove: 9 prospects, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper CrownCopper, Gold, Silver, Iron, SilicaProspect
Copper Crown MineCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldProducer1915, 1941, 1955
MohawkCopper, GoldProspect
Remington Non-Metallic PropertyPumiceProspect
Silver CrownLead, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Silver Crown MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, GoldProducer1880, 1885, 1964
White ClayClay, Talc-SoapstoneOccurrence
White ClayClayProspect
ZoniaCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer1880
Golden DaisyCopperProspect

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
McNary Place3.2 miles32
Rush Place Windmill3.3 miles29
Baldwin Place3.3 miles32
Wagoner4.8 miles30
Walker Place Windmill5.7 miles29
Paxton Place8.4 miles30
Kirkland Junction8.6 miles28
Hooper8.9 miles32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 35860. 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.