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White Mountain Lake, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Snowflake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85901. It stands on Rocky Arroyo. The Survey maps it on the Silver Springs quadrangle. 2,335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,047 feet above sea level.

White Mountain Lake within Navajo County

Population over time

2 figures

White Mountain Lake grew from 2,205 to 2,335 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
20102,205
20202,335+130 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

77 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of White Mountain Lake between 1993 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 11 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/undetermined52
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLOVE LAKE RANCH
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSNOWFLAKE CIRCLE
11 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestWHITE MOUNTAIN
9 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHWY 77 MP 351
19 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBOURDON RANCH RD MM 8
18 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHWY 77 LONE PINE DAMN RD
17 August 2002Naturalunder an acreApache-Sitgreaves National ForestLONE PINE
14 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHWY 77 MP 351.5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Navajo County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of White Mountain Lake: 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Pumice, 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Cinder PitPumiceUnknown
Cinder PitsPumiceUnknown
Silver Springs No. 1 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Silver Springs No. 2 Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer

Every working recorded in Navajo 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
White Mountain Lakes Estates0.5 miles19
Silver Creek2.6 miles19
Robinson Trail Crossing5.0 miles16
Shumway5.6 miles15
Roundy Crossing6.2 miles16
Show Low6.7 miles16
Bell6.9 miles19
Schoens Crossing7.6 miles15

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 Mountain LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7995084The 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 40288. 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.