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Ak Chin, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. The Survey maps it on the Santa Rosa quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,854 feet above sea level.

Ak Chin within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Ak Chin grew from 30 to 50 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
201030
202050+20 (+67%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Ak Chin between 1993 and 2014, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning5
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresPapago AgencySAN LUIS
15 July 2003Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSTANFIELD MARSH
7 June 2001Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDESERT WIND
4 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyRTE15-24
14 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyARCHIE WOOD
14 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyMANDRE
30 May 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresPapago AgencyPALOVERDE2
23 May 1995Fireworks50 acresPapago AgencySR-SCHOOL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima 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 Ak Chin: 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gold, Tungsten, Uranium. 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
Hill Top Uranium ClaimUraniumOccurrence
ThanksgivingTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Unnamed ProspectGoldOccurrenceVein
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima 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
Ali Oidak1.4 miles14
Makgum Havoka2.7 miles15
Santa Rosa3.0 miles14
Palo Verde Stand3.6 miles14
Achi3.9 miles14
Gurli Put Vo5.8 miles14
Anegam6.0 miles14
Hoi Oidak7.3 miles15

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 Ak ChinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6646849The 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 10855. 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.