Wiggins Crossing, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Flagstaff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85931. It lies near Hart Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Grama Draw quadrangle. It stands 6,762 feet above sea level.

Wiggins Crossing within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1886 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Grama Draw quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Grama Draw quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Wiggins Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,392 acres in total. 147 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
Natural	147
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	SPAULDING
5 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	HART
3 September 2015	Natural	3.0 acres	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	MCGUIRE
23 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	BSA
2 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	FAIRCHILD
17 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	PILE
8 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	DUTCH JOE
8 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest	VINCENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino 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
Mule Crossing	4.1 miles	26
Victorine Crossing	5.7 miles	16
Campo Bonito	6.4 miles	26
Turkey Crossing	6.4 miles	26
Horse Crossing	8.9 miles	16
Kinder Crossing	8.9 miles	16
Macks Crossing	8.9 miles	16
Blue Ridge	10.4 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 Q38249502

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 36143. 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.