Bowie Junction, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85605. It lies near Monk Draw. The Survey maps it on the Railroad Pass quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bowie Junction within Cochise 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.

1922 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Fisher Hills quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Luzena quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Railroad Pass quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Willcox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Railroad Pass quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Bowie Junction (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 183 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	43
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Smoking	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
18 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	WET FIRE
16 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	RUNNING
13 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	NINTENDO
21 August 1992	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
13 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	INTERCHANGE
11 August 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
3 July 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Luzena

Every fire 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
Luzena	0.5 miles	17
Raso	6.9 miles	18
Buckeye Mill	7.7 miles	17
Bowie	7.8 miles	17
Dos Cabezas	12.9 miles	17
Willcox	13.3 miles	18
Olga	14.8 miles	17
Yellow Hammer Mill	17.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 25280. 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.