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Willaha, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Williams census division. The Survey maps it on the Howard Hill quadrangle. It stands 5,814 feet above sea level.

Willaha within Coconino County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Willaha between 1994 and 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHOWARD HILL
23 August 1994Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
22 August 2006Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeLOOKOUT
21 July 2005Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestBILL
17 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRED HORSE
30 June 2006Naturalunder an acreKaibab National ForestCAPTAIN
12 May 2001Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRED HORSE
4 October 1994Natural2.5 acresKaibab National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coconino County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Willaha: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Uranium, Iron. 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 No. 1 ClaimCopper, Uranium, IronPast ProducerBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite
Willaha GroupCopper, Uranium, IronPast ProducerBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Covellite, Malachite
Copper No1CopperProspect

Every working recorded in Coconino County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willaha in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodWillaha-Cataract Creek at Redlands Crossing rose two feet in less than an hour due to heavy rainfall upstream.
July 2021Flash FloodWillaha-Havasu Creek at Supai rose 18 inches in about an hour. It took six hours for the creek to return to normal.
August 2008HailWillaha-A thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch diameter hail.
August 2008Flash FloodWillaha-Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Cataract Creek that covered Wilawa Road with 5 feet of water.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Willaha-A small tornado was reported abut 15 miles northwest of Valle. Several funnel clouds were seen intermittently for 20 minutes after last touchdown.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Woodin6.0 miles18
Valle10.0 miles19
Apex13.2 miles19
Tin House15.6 miles19
Quivero16.3 miles19
Tusayan16.3 miles19
Coconino16.4 miles19
Grand Canyon21.2 miles39

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 WillahaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38249520The 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 24691. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.