Yellow Hammer Mill, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85632. The Survey maps it on the Olga quadrangle.

Yellow Hammer Mill within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1917 USGS San Simon quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1928 USGS Bowie quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Bowie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Bowie quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Olga quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Olga quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Yellow Hammer Mill between 1995 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
17 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	POWER
23 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
19 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gila District Office	SAN SIMON
7 December 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Yellow Hammer Mill: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
Name Unknown	Geothermal	Producer
Name Unknown	Geothermal	Producer
Name Unknown	Geothermal	Producer

Every working recorded in Cochise 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
Olga	5.8 miles	17
San Simon	7.3 miles	18
Bowie	10.8 miles	17
Wheeler Place	12.8 miles	18
Vanar	13.3 miles	19
Buckeye Mill	17.2 miles	17
Bowie Junction (historical)	17.9 miles	17
Luzena	17.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24698. 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.