Yampai, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Ash Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86337. The Survey maps it on the Yampai quadrangle. It stands 5,607 feet above sea level.

Yampai within Yavapai 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.

1886 USGS Diamond Creek quadrangle1:250000
1892 USGS Diamond Creek quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1948 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Williams quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Yampai quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Valentine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

2 photographs, 1943

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Yampai, Arizona. Brakeman and the conductor inspecting the train during a stop on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Seligman, Arizona and Needles, California
Delano, Jack, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Yampai between 1993 and 2019, burning about 28 acres in total. 8 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/undetermined	10
Natural	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	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 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	DIVIDE
14 September 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Truxton Canyon Agency	TWIN
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District	PITT
22 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	DINOSAUR CITY
20 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	GRAND CANYON CAVERN
15 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
13 August 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	YAMPAI DIVIDE
5 July 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	DINOSAUR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai 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 Yampai: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sand and Gravel

Every working 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
Pica	4.0 miles	18
Nelson	6.6 miles	19
Audley	10.5 miles	18
Seligman	20.5 miles	20
Crookton	29.3 miles	18
Pinaveta	37.9 miles	22
Ash Fork	42.1 miles	26
Meath (historical)	47.2 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 Q38249610

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 14035. 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.