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Yucca, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lake Havasu City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 86438. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yucca quadrangle. 96 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,824 feet above sea level.

Yucca within Mohave County

Population over time

2 figures

Yucca fell from 126 to 96 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
2010126
202096-30 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 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.

Rusted relics in an "automobile graveyard" near Yucca, Arizona
Rusted relics in an "automobile graveyard" near Yucca, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Rusted relics in an "automobile graveyard" near Yucca, Arizona
Rusted relics in an "automobile graveyard" near Yucca, Arizona
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Yucca between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeWARMSPRING
3 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeWALNUT
20 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
10 August 1994Naturalunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeDRAKE
3 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDEAN
3 July 2001Natural5.0 acresPhoenix District OfficeCOTTONWOO2
26 July 1992Naturalunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeISLAND
24 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictBORROW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Yucca: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Perlite, Volcanic Materials, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Black Mountains BasaltVolcanic MaterialsOccurrenceBasalt
Unnamed Pyrophyllite OccurrenceTalc-SoapstoneOccurrencePyrophyllite
Perlite #2PerliteUnknown
Perlite 1PerliteProspect
Southern Black Mountains Perlite DepositPerlitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this place

11 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yucca in 11 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 6 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2015Flash FloodYucca$5,000Boriana Mine Road was washed out at McKenzie Wash.
August 2013Flash FloodYucca$5,000Boulders washed onto the road near the intersection of Alamo Road and Boriana Mine Road. Alamo Road south of Yucca was damaged by flooding.
August 2017Flash FloodYucca$3,000Several roads were closed due to flooding.
July 2015Flash FloodYucca$2,000Apache Road was closed due to flooding of the McKenzie Wash.
July 2015Flash FloodYucca$2,000Flash flooding closed Alamo Road and Carmen Lane.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindYucca$1,000A tree was blown over.
July 2018Flash FloodYucca$1,000Apache Drive was closed from Alamo Road to Knox Road.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindYucca-Penny size hail also fell.
January 2016Funnel CloudYucca-A weak funnel cloud was photographed near Boriana Mine Road east of Yucca.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindYucca-no account filed
October 2021Thunderstorm WindYucca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mohave 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
Haviland5.0 miles16
Athos5.4 miles15
Franconia11.1 miles26
Drake11.7 miles28
Griffith13.5 miles28
Powell15.2 miles26
Oatman16.3 miles29
Harris18.6 miles27

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 YuccaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2894645The 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 14103. 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.