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Apache Junction, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the North Pinal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85120. The Survey maps it on the Apache Junction quadrangle. 38,499 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,722 feet above sea level.

Apache Junction within Pinal County

Population over time

2 figures

Apache Junction grew from 35,840 to 38,499 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
201035,840
202038,499+2,659 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Apache Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,204 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined163
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking3
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central DistrictBARKLEY
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestBROADWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Apache Junction: 6 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver, Kaolin. 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
Denham ProspectCopper, Lead, Gold, SilverProspect
Mammoth GroupGold, Copper, Silver, Manganese, MolybdenumPast Producer1893, 1978
Randolph Lead-Zinc PropertiesLead, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Wallpai Brick Co. Clay DepositKaolinPast ProducerKaolinite
Winter Gold and Summer Gold ClaimsSilver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, CopperOccurrence
BulldogGold, SilverPast Producer
Bulldog MineGold, Silver, CopperProducer1892, 1914, 1942
Lost Desert ClaimsGold, Silver, CopperProspect
Mesa Gold Mining and Milling CoGold, SilverPast Producer
Gold FieldGoldProspectGold

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apache Junction in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 5 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindApache Junction-Winds associated with the same storm activity as the above entry blew a roof off of a house and damaged a mobile home.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindApache Junction-A trailer was blown over onto its side.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindApache Junction-19,1800MST,,,0,0,?,0,Thunderstorm Winds Shingles were blown off a roof. A mobile home was blown off its foundation.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindApache Junction-Thunderstorm winds blew shingles off some roofs and snapped large branches off trees.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindApache Junction-Shingles were blown off a roof.

Every storm recorded in Pinal 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
Roadhaven Recreational Vehicle Resort0.7 miles21
Palm Springs0.9 miles21
Youngberg4.5 miles22
Gold Canyon5.8 miles21
Gold Camp15.5 miles20
San Tan Valley15.5 miles19
Florence Junction15.6 miles20
Queen Valley15.9 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 Apache JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79829The 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 25702. 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.