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Yarnell, Arizona

31 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Congress census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85362. It lies near Harper Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Yarnell quadrangle. 570 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,780 feet above sea level.

Yarnell within Yavapai County

Population over time

2 figures

Yarnell fell from 649 to 570 between 2010 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
2010649
2020570-79 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 31 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Yarnell between 1993 and 2020, burning about 13,132 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/undetermined22
Natural8
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
5 September 2006Natural7.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICHIE
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
10 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH
8 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire District1817541
4 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
3 August 2019Natural3.3 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYarnell Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
21 August 2006Natural10 acresPhoenix District OfficeRICH HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Yarnell: 22 prospects, 15 producers, 13 past producers, 8 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver, Silver. 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
Alvarado MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducer1905, 1935, 1943
Charlie Brown ClaimsCopper, GoldOccurrence
HartmanGold, Lead, SilverProspect
John SloanCopper, Gold, LeadProspect
JohnsonGold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer
Mountain ViewGold, MolybdenumProspect
MyersGold, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Santa ClausBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
Stanton Magnetite TaconiteIron, Manganese, Sulfur, Titanium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, SilicaOccurrence
UranusFluorine-Fluorite, Feldspar, Calcium, UraniumOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Yavapai County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yarnell in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2016: 3 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2016Heavy RainYarnell-The Stanton Mesonet Station (ZSTA3) measured 1.93 inches of rainfall.
July 2014Heavy RainYarnell-A thunderstorm produced heavy rain (0.90) over Yarnell and the Yarnell Hill Fire scar. This caused flowing water in washes and over low water crossings. The water stayed below the bridges in town.
July 2013Heavy RainYarnell-Heavy rain from a thunderstorm cause water to flow over several roads in Yarnell. There was significant flows through the drainages.
July 2013Flash FloodYarnell-Heavy rain over the Yarnell Hill Fire scar caused flash flooding in the town of Yarnell. A couple roads were over topped and debris flows ere observed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindYarnell-A RAWS 5 miles south of Yarnell recorded a 67 MPH wind gust with from a thunderstorm.

Every storm 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
Glen Ilah0.8 miles26
Peeples Valley3.4 miles28
Stanton4.0 miles31
Octave6.3 miles31
Piedmont6.3 miles26
Congress Junction6.6 miles26
Congress6.8 miles26
Rush Place Windmill8.2 miles29

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 YarnellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2745133The 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 14039. 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.