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Artesa, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. It lies near Suwuk Tontk. The Survey maps it on the Sells East quadrangle. It stands 2,477 feet above sea level.

Artesa within Pima County

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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Artesa between 1992 and 2015, burning about 272 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined86
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Other causes4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyARTESIA
18 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresPapago AgencyLEWISFIRE
16 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePapago AgencyARTESIA
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresPapago AgencyTOPD WASH
9 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyVAMORI FIRE
8 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencySUNDAY
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyLITTLE TUCSON
6 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePapago AgencySELLS08

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Artesa: 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Artesa in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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 2017Thunderstorm WindArtesa$30,000Thunderstorm winds blew roofs off a couple houses and collapsed another. Winds also knocked down several power lines. Sells RAWS measured a gust of 62 mph.

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
Sells1.8 miles17
Ali Chukson3.0 miles17
Chukson3.1 miles17
Ali Molina4.1 miles17
Chiawuli Tak4.5 miles17
Topawa6.1 miles16
Wickchoupai8.1 miles18
Cowlic9.6 miles17

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 ArtesaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191644The 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 24310. 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.