Benson Junction, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Sierra Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85616. It stands on Willow Wash. The Survey maps it on the Fairbank quadrangle.

Benson Junction within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1915 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1932 USGS Fairbank quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000
1952 USGS Fairbank quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1952 USGS Tombstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Fort Huachuca quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1996 USGS Fairbank quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Benson Junction between 1992 and 2019, burning about 217 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None 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/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
19 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Gila District Office	SATURDAY
4 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Gila District Office	KELLAR
26 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	HWY 80 MM 309
8 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Gila District Office	INBALANCE
20 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Gila District Office	FAIRBANK
2 July 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
12 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Gila District Office	COTTONWOOD
1 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Whetstone Fire District	WALNUT GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Benson Junction: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Eads Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cochise 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fairbank (historical)	1.2 miles	21
Contention	2.1 miles	21
Boquillas	2.8 miles	21
Tombstone	7.2 miles	21
Charleston (historical)	7.3 miles	21
Whetstone	8.3 miles	25
Escalante Crossing	8.4 miles	21
Curtiss	10.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25278. 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.