White Clay, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fort Defiance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87328. The Survey maps it on the White Clay quadrangle. It stands 7,516 feet above sea level.

White Clay within Apache County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1892 USGS Canyon De Chelly quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Sonsala Butte 4 SW quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Sonsela Buttes quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Shiprock quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS White Clay quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Canyon De Chelly quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of White Clay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 506 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	60
Debris and open burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	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
9 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	9200 RD-E
5 September 2006	Natural	2.5 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	9280 ROAD FIRE
30 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	5.2 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	9290-RD
26 September 2009	Natural	5.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	TURKEY SPRINGS FIRE
21 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	RA# 1405
2 September 2011	Natural	5.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	WHITE CLAY 2
19 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	WHITECLAY
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management	TURKEYFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Milkwater

Every fire recorded in Apache 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Milkwater	5.8 miles	19
Lower Wheatfields	10.6 miles	18
Sawmill	11.6 miles	19
Wheatfields	12.8 miles	18
Upper Wheatfields	13.2 miles	18
Del Muerto	14.5 miles	17
Sehili	15.1 miles	17
Junction Overlook	15.4 miles	17

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.

Wikidata item Q14680776

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 24686. 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.