Wood Trap, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Prescott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86338. It lies near Weed Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Martin Mountain quadrangle. It stands 4,423 feet above sea level.

Wood Trap within Yavapai County

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.

1887 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1947 USGS Sheridan Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Sheridan Mountain quadrangle1:63360
1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Sheridan Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Martin Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wood Trap between 1996 and 2020, burning about 285 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Prescott National Forest	CORN FIELD
22 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	TONTO
20 August 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	CORNFIELD
3 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	INDEPENDENCE
22 July 2005	Natural	200 acres	Prescott National Forest	TANK
7 June 2006	Natural	83 acres	Prescott National Forest	BALD
20 March 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Prescott National Forest	D1

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Willow Spring	5.5 miles	26
Skull Valley	9.3 miles	26
Yava	10.5 miles	24
Iron Springs	12.3 miles	27
Highland Park	12.7 miles	27
Prieta (historical)	12.9 miles	27
Granite Basin Summer Homes	13.0 miles	27
Grand View	13.0 miles	25

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 Q38249582

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 38972. 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.