Yuma, Arizona

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Yuma County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 52 shown

• Superintendent's ResidenceNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• Balsz Houselisted 1982
• Blaisdell Slow Sand Filter Washing Machinelisted 1979
• Brinley Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1982
• Brown Houselisted 1982
• Brownstetter Houselisted 1982
• Cactus Press-Plaza Paint Buildinglisted 1987
• Caruthers Houselisted 1982
• Dressing Apartmentslisted 1982
• Frank Ewing Houselisted 1982
• Ruth Ewing Houselisted 1982
• Fourth Avenue Junior High Schoollisted 1982

Every listing in Yuma County

Surveyed buildings and structures 6 records

• Laguna Diversion Dam, Laguna Dam Road, Yumafederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Southern Pacific Railroad Water Settling Reservoir, Yuma Crossing, south bank of Colorado River at foot of Madison Avenue, Yumafederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Yuma Crossing, Riverfront Area, between Prison Hill & Fourth Avenue, Yumafederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Yuma Main Street Water Treatment Plant, Blaisdell Slow Sand Filter Washing Machine, Jones Street at foot of Main Street, Yumafederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Yuma Main Street Water Treatment Plant, Jones Street at foot of Main Street, Yumafederal building survey, 20 photographs
• Yuma Proving Ground, Yumafederal building survey, 1 photograph

Yuma grew from 93,064 to 95,548 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.

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.

• 1903 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1905 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1940 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1942 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:250000
• 1945 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:62500
• 1952 USGS Yuma East quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Yuma East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1993 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Yuma East quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 658 fires within 5 miles of Yuma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,434 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 62 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• San Dionysio (historical)
• Araby
• Steam
• Kool Corner

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Yuma: 23 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Yuma County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yuma in 47 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 29 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 4 flash flood, 3 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Yuma County

3 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 2,319 issues, 9,637 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 11 issues spread across its run from 1911 to 1918, 15,097 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 14111. 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.