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.
Population over time
2 figuresYucca 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 126 | |
| 2020 | 96 | -30 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1927 USGS Yucca quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Yucca quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1970 USGS Yucca quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Needles quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Needles quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
2 photographs, 2018Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2018. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
34 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | WARMSPRING |
| 3 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | WALNUT |
| 20 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 10 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | DRAKE |
| 3 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | DEAN |
| 3 July 2001 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Phoenix District Office | COTTONWOO2 |
| 26 July 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | ISLAND |
| 24 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado River District | BORROW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mountains Basalt | Volcanic Materials | Occurrence | Basalt | |
| Unnamed Pyrophyllite Occurrence | Talc-Soapstone | Occurrence | Pyrophyllite | |
| Perlite #2 | Perlite | Unknown | ||
| Perlite 1 | Perlite | Prospect | ||
| Southern Black Mountains Perlite Deposit | Perlite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Yucca | $5,000 | Boriana Mine Road was washed out at McKenzie Wash. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Yucca | $5,000 | Boulders washed onto the road near the intersection of Alamo Road and Boriana Mine Road. Alamo Road south of Yucca was damaged by flooding. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Yucca | $3,000 | Several roads were closed due to flooding. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Yucca | $2,000 | Apache Road was closed due to flooding of the McKenzie Wash. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Yucca | $2,000 | Flash flooding closed Alamo Road and Carmen Lane. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yucca | $1,000 | A tree was blown over. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Yucca | $1,000 | Apache Drive was closed from Alamo Road to Knox Road. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yucca | - | Penny size hail also fell. |
| January 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Yucca | - | A weak funnel cloud was photographed near Boriana Mine Road east of Yucca. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yucca | - | no account filed |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yucca | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Yucca | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2894645 | 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 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.






