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Adobe, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Deer Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85027. It stands on Adobe Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Union Hills quadrangle.

Adobe within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

701 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 701 fires within 5 miles of Adobe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 782 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined656
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122600
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122601
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122599
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101900
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101899
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department331115
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department330002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Adobe: 24 unknowns, 18 past producers, 5 producers, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Calumet & CorneliaCopper, GoldOccurrence
Copper Hill GroupCopper, Silver, Gold, Iron, Sulfur-PyriteProspect
Gravel PitCopper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, GoldUnknown
Happy Canyon PropertyCopperUnknown
Kruger and Sultan-Pat.#4355 & 1906Gold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Arizona Gold Decomposed Granite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
J.D. Harris Decomposed Granite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Stone QuarryStonePast ProducerMetamorphic
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Deer Valley0.7 miles19
Villas Plaza1.2 miles18
Rose Garden Place III1.5 miles18
Rose Garden Place1.5 miles18
Suncrest Villas West1.7 miles19
Country Ridge2.2 miles18
Amberwood North2.4 miles19
Parkview Estates2.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492. 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.