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Amado, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Nogales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85645. It stands on Toros Wash. The Survey maps it on the Amado quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,097 feet above sea level.

Amado within Santa Cruz County

Population over time

2 figures

Amado fell from 295 to 198 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
2010295
2020198-97 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Amado between 1992 and 2020, burning about 148 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined41
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeKMP 48
15 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeARIVACA ROAD
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCANOA 2
18 July 1999Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAMADO
15 July 2001Smoking1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTWIN BUTTE
13 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBIG BBQ
8 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTUMACACORI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Amado: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Marble, Dimension, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
AmadoMarble, Dimension, Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone, Marble
M and A PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Shaft Fe DepositIronOccurrenceLimonite, Magnetite

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amado in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2021: 6 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 2018Flash FloodAmado$750,000Thunderstorms produced 3 to 5 inches of rain along Sopori Wash and in Amado, which led to flash flooding in Amado. Water flowed at depths ranging from 2 to 5 feet deep through several commercial properties including a restaurant, feed store, automotive shop, and youth center, causing substantial damage to the buildings and their contents. Additionally, several RVs suffered water damage at a RV storage park. Minor damage also occurred to Arivaca Road and others in the area.
August 2005Flash FloodAmado$5,000Two miles south of the Town of Amado a burm failed and caused two to three feet of water to run through a local farm, causing damage to crops and equipment in the field.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAmado$3,000A line of thunderstorms produced damaging winds that downed several trees in Amado. One of the trees downed a power line that caused a power outage to 200 customers for two hours. Winds also ripped a gate from its hinges at one residence. Additionally, a wind gust to 78 mph was recorded at the Hopkins RAWS station at 7100 feet MSL.
September 2012Flash FloodAmado$1,000A vehicle became stranded in flood waters on Arivaca Road.
August 2021Flash FloodAmado-Two to four inches of rain in 90 minutes caused flash flooding of washes up to 3 feet deep across Arivaca Rd. prompting its closure.
August 2018Flash FloodAmado-Heavy rain caused water to flow 3 feet deep across Arivaca Road between mile markers 17 and 18 near Batamote Wash.
July 2005Flash FloodAmado-The Incident Meteorologist on the Florida Fire in Madera Canyon (10.5 miles east of Amado) reported that there was flash flooding in Madera Canyon with debris across Madera Canyon Road.
September 2018HailAmado-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Agua Linda2.0 miles19
Sotos Crossing (historical)5.5 miles19
Tubac6.6 miles20
Carmen8.3 miles20
Tumacacori9.6 miles20
Madera Canyon9.8 miles23
Alto12.2 miles23
Otero12.5 miles20

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 AmadoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q452092The 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 25614. 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.