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Willow Valley, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bullhead City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86440. It lies near Spears Lake. The Survey maps it on the Needles NE quadrangle. 1,059 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Willow Valley within Mohave County

On record in Willow Valley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Willow Valley grew from 585 to 1,059 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
2000585
20101,062+477 (+82%)
20201,059-3 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

382 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Willow Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,108 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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/undetermined271
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Debris and open burning17
Smoking9
Fireworks6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Havasu Refuges ComplexVANDERSLICE
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresLake Havasu Refuges ComplexSECTION 14
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitHOMESTEAD
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitSPOT
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River AgencyCOURTRIGHT
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Bernardino UnitBRIDGE
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMohave Valley Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Willow Valley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Gourd Wash PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Mohave Valley1.7 miles22
Mojave Ranch Estates2.3 miles22
Arizona Village4.2 miles25
Mesquite Creek4.3 miles22
Mojave City9.2 miles35
Hardyville (historical)9.2 miles35
Fivemile Landing9.7 miles25
Riviera13.1 miles35

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 Willow ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2140571The 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 1866993. 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.