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Ali Oidak, 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.

Ali Oidak within Pima County

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

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Ali Oidak between 1993 and 2014, burning about 152 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks1
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
2 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyANEGAM03
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
9 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyROSA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ali Oidak: 9 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Tungsten, Geothermal. 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
Arizona Hill Top MinesCopper, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectGoldOccurrenceVein
Gossan No 4CopperUnknown
Gossan No. 4 ProspectCopper, UraniumOccurrenceChrysocolla, Malachite
ThanksgivingTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
ThanksgivingTungstenOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
Gossan 14 ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Hill Top Uranium ClaimUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ali Oidak in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2013Thunderstorm WindAli Oidak$25,000Thunderstorms winds blew the lightly-nailed wooden roof off a church at Ak-Chin Village. Two other structures had portions of their roofs blown off.

Every storm 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
Ak Chin1.4 miles14
Santa Rosa1.6 miles14
Palo Verde Stand2.3 miles14
Achi2.8 miles14
Makgum Havoka4.0 miles15
Anegam4.7 miles14
Noipa Kam6.7 miles14
Gurli Put Vo6.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24300. 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.