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Arivaca, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Arivaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85601. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Arivaca quadrangle. 623 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,643 feet above sea level.

Arivaca within Pima County

On record in Arivaca

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Arivaca fell from 695 to 623 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
2010695
2020623-72 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Arivaca between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,292 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined30
Natural19
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
5 September 2002Natural1.0 acresCoronado National ForestCANINE
30 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestARIVACA
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresCoronado National ForestJARILLAS
19 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeUNIVERSAL RANCH
12 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
11 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBUSHMASTER
5 August 2000Natural1.0 acresBuenos Aires National Wildlife RefugeCIENEGA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 139 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 139 workings within 5 miles of Arivaca: 101 past producers, 15 producers, 14 prospects, 5 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, 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
Arivaca Creek PlacersGold, Silver, Tungsten, MercuryPast ProducerGold
Blue Jay and Gold StarLead, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Buena Vista Mine GroupGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer
CarrascoSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadPast Producer
ConejoGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Cottontail MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, ZincProducer1938, 1939
Fair Play MineLead, Gold, Copper, Silver, ZincProducer1931, 1962
Gismo 1-12 ClaimsGold, Silver, Uranium, CopperPast Producer
Gismo ClaimsGold, Copper, Silver, UraniumOccurrenceVein
Gold PlateCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arivaca in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 5 flash flood, 4 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 2003Thunderstorm WindArivaca$6,000no account filed
August 2002Flash FloodArivaca$5,000no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindArivaca-A wind gust of 60 mph was recorded near Arivaca.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindArivaca-Sasabe RAWS recorded a 66 mph wind gust.
July 2014Flash FloodArivaca-Heavy rain resulting in flash flooding near Arivaca began around 1430 MST when several low water crossings were reported as impassable. Law enforcement reported that Indian Road 19 just north of South Komelik had to be closed around 1500 MST. Heavy rain amounts such as 1.25 inches in 1 hour and 2.75 inches in 2.5 hours were reported by spotters. Both Sapo Tank and Yellowjacket Wash came up in a short period of time and flowed quickly throughout the afternoon.
September 2014Flash FloodArivaca-Heavy rain of over two inches in less than two hours flooded parts of Arivaca Road, causing it to be closed to traffic.
August 2014Flash FloodArivaca-Several roads were flooded in the Arivaca area.
July 2003Flash FloodArivaca-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindArivaca-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
Las Guijas7.1 miles16
Sandwash Mill7.8 miles20
Puertocito9.1 miles18
Secundino10.1 miles16
Sasabe12.6 miles12
Sapano Vaya17.6 miles17
Buenos Aires17.6 miles17
Arivaca Junction17.8 miles19

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 ArivacaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28696The 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 25738. 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.