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Williamson, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Prescott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86305. The Survey maps it on the Jerome Canyon quadrangle. 6,196 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,052 feet above sea level.

Williamson within Yavapai County

Population over time

3 figures

Williamson grew from 3,776 to 6,196 between 2000 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
20003,776
20105,438+1,662 (+44%)
20206,196+758 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Williamson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Natural23
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1995Natural1.0 acresPrescott National ForestGRANITE
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical Authoritynot named
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestT.J.
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical Authority10933
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical Authority10903
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Arizona Fire and Medical AuthorityNOT NAMED
1 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePrescott National ForestBOULDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai 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
Stringfield0.9 miles26
Mint1.9 miles26
Granite Basin Summer Homes5.3 miles27
Chino Valley6.6 miles29
Tutt7.0 miles30
Granite Siding7.0 miles30
Iron Springs7.4 miles27
Prieta (historical)8.0 miles27

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 WilliamsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q644461The 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 1875794. 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.