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Arivaca Junction, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Arivaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85645. It stands on Old Junction Wash. The Survey maps it on the Amado quadrangle. 970 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,140 feet above sea level.

Arivaca Junction within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Arivaca Junction fell from 1,090 to 970 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
20101,090
2020970-120 (-11%)

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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Arivaca Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 189 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/undetermined47
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSB I-19
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima 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 Arivaca Junction: 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 Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arivaca Junction in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flash flood. 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 1996Flash FloodArivaca Junction-no account filed

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
Green Valley9.5 miles20
Continental9.8 miles20
Twin Buttes12.1 miles21
Green Valley Pueblo Estates12.2 miles20
Duval15.1 miles20
East Sahuarita16.5 miles20
Greaterville16.7 miles21
Sahuarita16.8 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 Arivaca JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28394The 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 25739. 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.