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White Hills, Arizona

29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Kingman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86445. The Survey maps it on the White Hills West quadrangle. 345 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,792 feet above sea level.

White Hills within Mohave County

Population over time

2 figures

White Hills grew from 323 to 345 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.

YearPeople Change
2010323
2020345+22 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of White Hills between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2,225 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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 September 1994Natural1,600 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
18 August 1994Natural600 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
14 August 2000Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeWHITE HILLS
9 July 2011Natural6.0 acresColorado River DistrictPRINCE ALBERT
8 July 2017Naturalunder an acreColorado River DistrictCORNELL
5 July 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
25 July 2006Natural14 acresPhoenix District OfficeDETRITAL
21 July 2012Naturalunder an acreColorado River DistrictWHITE HILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of White Hills: 20 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Silver, Gold, Beryllium. 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
Big Ledge and HelenaUranium, Lead, ZincProspect
Hulda MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Norma MineGold, Silver, BerylliumPast Producer
Hidden Treasure MineSilver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Norma MineSilver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Prince Albert MineSilver, GoldPast ProducerCerargyrite
Blind Goddess MineSilverPast Producer
Bonanza MineSilverPast Producer
Chief of the HillsSilverPast Producer
Good LuckSilverPast Producer

Every working 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
Cyclopic8.6 miles30
Dolan Springs12.0 miles29
Ray Place21.7 miles29
Bonelli Landing24.2 miles23
Grasshopper Junction24.6 miles27
Chloride24.7 miles32
Meadview25.2 miles21
South Cove29.0 miles21

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 White HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5244996The 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 24687. 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.