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Aravaipa, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bonita-Klondyke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85643. It lies near Williamson Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cobre Grande Mountain quadrangle.

Aravaipa within Graham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Aravaipa between 1994 and 2003, burning about 287 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
9 July 2002Natural6.0 acresSan Carlos AgencyCOPPER
5 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined205 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
22 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyTELEPHONE
6 June 2000Natural5.0 acresGila District OfficeSTANLEY
18 June 2003Natural5.0 acresCoronado National ForestCOBRE
7 May 1998Arson/incendiarism50 acresSan Carlos AgencyRED DOG
30 May 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graham County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Aravaipa: 42 past producers, 15 occurrences, 15 prospects, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Abe Reed MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, GoldPast Producer1925, 1947, 1951
Aleman AditLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver, Uranium, CadmiumPast Producer
AravaipaLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, VanadiumPast Producer
Aravaipa DistrictZinc, Lead, SilverPast Producer1957
ArizonaLead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Iron, Manganese, SilicaProspect
Arizona MineSilver, Lead, Gold, QuartzPast Producer1895, 1916, 1955
Ben HurLead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, UraniumPast Producer
Ben Hur MineLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast ProducerAnglesite, Cerussite, Galena
Cobre Grande Mine.Copper, Lead, Iron, SilverPast Producer1905, 1916, 1957
Copper Bar Prospect.Copper, Silver, Gold, IronPast Producer1902

Every working recorded in Graham 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
Ellison Place (historical)4.2 miles14
Klondyke8.5 miles21
Bylas17.4 miles13
Natches17.7 miles14
Calva17.8 miles13
Geronimo18.9 miles13
Emery19.5 miles13
Fort Thomas21.4 miles11

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 AravaipaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16829917The 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 25296. 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.