Yava, Arizona

24 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 86332. It stands on Bland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillside quadrangle.

Yava within Yavapai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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
1903 USGS Congress quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Congress quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Prescott quadrangle1:250000
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
1969 USGS Hillside quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Bradshaw Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

8 of 25 photographs shown, 2018

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.

Structure at Arcosanti, a tiny settlement founded as an experimental of the future in Yavapai County, Arizona's, high desert
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

View of the old mining boomtown of Jerome, on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley in Yavapai County, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

The Arcosanti Apse, a semi-dome at Arcosanti, a tiny settlement founded as an experimental of the future in Yavapai County, Arizona's, high desert. The apse is designed to shelter the community's casting of bronze bells whose sales support the community
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Roadside view along a winding, often steep mountain road in Yavapai County between Prescott , Arizona's old capital city when it was a territory, and the once-booming mining town of Jerome
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

[A freight train on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF RR) chugs across a lonely stretch of Arizona's high desert between Seligman and Ash Fork in Yavapai County
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Part of the old Audrey Mine headframe in the old mining boomtown of Jerome, on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley in Yavapai County, Arizona. A headframe, sometimes called a gallows frame, is a winding tower, hoist frame, or headgear atop a deep mine shaft
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Wall of the Arcosanti Apse, a semi-dome at Arcosanti, a tiny settlement founded as an experimental of the future in Yavapai County, Arizona's, high desert. The apse is designed to shelter the community's casting of bronze bells whose sales support the community
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Yavapai County

Fires near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Yava between 1993 and 2019, burning about 4,733 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District	CLIFF
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
20 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Congress Fire District	NOT NAMED
20 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	75 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Northwest District	HILL
18 August 1993	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
13 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
5 July 1995	Smoking	45 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
31 July 1995	Natural	5.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yavapai County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Yava: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Bentonite, Lithium, Gold, Gold, Copper, Silver, Lithium, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cow Horn Patent	Copper	Unknown
Dave 1-4	Lithium, Clay	Occurrence
Lyles Hectorite Mine	Bentonite	Producer	1955, 1986
Mammoth	Gold	Past Producer
Mammoth	Gold, Copper, Silver	Occurrence
White Hills Lithium	Bentonite, Lithium, Magnesite	Prospect
Dave 1-4	Bentonite, Lithium	Prospect

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
Hillside	4.0 miles	24
Grand View	5.1 miles	25
Apron Crossing	8.4 miles	17
Kirkland	10.2 miles	29
Wood Trap	10.5 miles	26
Date	10.9 miles	25
Skull Valley	11.1 miles	26
Ferguson Place Windmill	12.0 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24697. 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.