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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 14 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.
- 1953 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Gu Achi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Ajo quadrangle1:250000
- 1990 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Papago Agency | SAN LUIS |
| 2 July 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Papago Agency | ANEGAM03 |
| 15 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | STANFIELD MARSH |
| 7 June 2001 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | DESERT WIND |
| 4 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Papago Agency | RTE15-24 |
| 14 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Papago Agency | ARCHIE WOOD |
| 14 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Papago Agency | MANDRE |
| 9 May 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Papago Agency | ROSA FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Hill Top Mines | Copper, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Gossan No 4 | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Gossan No. 4 Prospect | Copper, Uranium | Occurrence | Chrysocolla, Malachite | |
| Thanksgiving | Tungsten | Occurrence | Scheelite | |
| Thanksgiving | Tungsten | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Gossan 14 Claim | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Hill Top Uranium Claim | Uranium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
1 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ali Oidak | $25,000 | Thunderstorms winds blew the lightly-nailed wooden roof off a church at Ak-Chin Village. Two other structures had portions of their roofs blown off. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ak Chin | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Santa Rosa | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Palo Verde Stand | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Achi | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Makgum Havoka | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Anegam | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Noipa Kam | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Gurli Put Vo | 6.9 miles | 14 |
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.










