Boquillas, 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. The Survey maps it on the Land quadrangle.

Boquillas 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
1922 USGS St. David quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000
1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS St. David quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Land quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Fort Huachuca quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1996 USGS Land quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Boquillas between 1993 and 2019, burning about 146 acres in total. 5 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	25
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
30 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	EAST
29 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	GRANT
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
11 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise 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 Boquillas: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Eads Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Geothermal	Producer
Unknown	Geothermal	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
Contention	1.4 miles	21
Benson Junction	2.8 miles	21
Fairbank (historical)	4.0 miles	21
Escalante Crossing	6.2 miles	21
Curtiss	7.8 miles	21
Whetstone	7.8 miles	25
Saint David	9.2 miles	21
Tombstone	9.4 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24332. 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.