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Arizola, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Casa Grande census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85122. The Survey maps it on the Casa Grande Mountains quadrangle.

Arizola within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

167 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Arizola between 1993 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined128
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeFLORENCE
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCasa Grande Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
25 September 1995Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
21 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCasa Grande Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
21 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCasa Grande Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
21 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCasa Grande Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePETERS ROAD
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBACKSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Arizola: 12 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Gypsum MinesGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Casa Grande Mts 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Casa Grande Plant #9Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arizola in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindArizola$5,000,000About 90 mobile homes damaged or destroyed at Las Casitas trailer park. One third of them were blown off their foundations. About 150 people evacuated due to damage and numerous gas leaks. Unknown number of people had minor injuries. Numerous trees were blown down and about a mile-long stretch of power poles were damaged.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindArizola$25,000Isolated thunderstorms developed during the evening hours across portions of northern Pinal County, and they produced strong, gusty and damaging outflow winds estimated to be in excess of 50 mph. According to local law enforcement, strong winds blew down several power poles near Thornton Road and West Hanna Street, about 4 miles southwest of Casa Grande. Although a severe thunderstorm warning was not in effect at the time, there was a significant weather advisory issued for the area highlighting the potential for strong gusty thunderstorm winds.
August 2017Flash FloodArizola$5,000Scattered thunderstorms developed across the northern portion of Pinal County during the evening hours on August 3rd, and some of the stronger storms affected areas around the town of Casa Grande. One of the primary weather hazards was intense rainfall which led to episodes of flash flooding over the lower deserts; the flooding caused roads to become impassable and resulted in various road closures. According to the city of Casa Grande Public Works Department, Overfield Road between Florence Highway 287 and Selma Highway was closed due to the high water. A Flash Flood Warning was in effect for the area during the flooding; it was issued at 1858MST and was cancelled at 2133MST.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindArizola$5,000Power poles were blown down on Thornton Road just north of Interstate 8.

Every storm recorded in Pinal County

Newspapers printed here

10,337 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 956 issues, 10,337 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Oasis1893 to 1920

What the paper printed

8,597 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 5 issues all from 1893, 8,597 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

IssuePaper Length
1893-05-11The Oasis497 words
1893-06-29The Oasis2,414 words
1893-08-17The Oasis2,201 words
1893-10-12The Oasis1,234 words
1893-11-30The Oasis2,251 words

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
Casa Grande3.0 miles18
Toltec6.7 miles19
Arizona City7.0 miles20
Chuichu7.8 miles17
Eleven Mile Corner8.0 miles21
Shopishk9.6 miles19
Eloy10.7 miles19
La Palma10.7 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 765. 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.