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Branaman, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Pinal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85137. It stands on Hackberry Wash. The Survey maps it on the Kearny quadrangle.

Branaman within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Branaman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,179 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined35
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
27 September 1993Smoking10 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 August 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 August 1992Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
27 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
14 August 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 July 2013Natural518 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSHIPMAN
4 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Branaman: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Gold. 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
C and B Group Bywater Mine?Copper, Lead, Zinc, VanadiumProducer
Copper Chief GroupTungsten, Vanadium, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect
Florence Lead-Silver MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Chromium, ZincPast ProducerMimetite, Pyrite, Siderite, Tennantite, Willemite, Wulfenite
Geronimo GroupManganese, Barium-BaritePast ProducerPsilomelane, Pyrolusite
Grayhorse Vanadium PropertyLead, Vanadium, Zinc, MolybdenumOccurrenceDescloizite, Galena, Vanadinite, Wulfenite
Grey HorseLead, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer
Kelvin Sultana Copper Co PropertiesCopper, Iron, Gold, Silica, SilverPast Producer
Kelvin-Sultana MineCopper, Silver, Lead, GoldProducer1903, 1918
Old Ripsey MineSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadProducer1941
Alma GroupCopper, Gold, SilverProspect

Every working recorded in Pinal 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
Kearny0.4 miles16
Riverside4.4 miles16
Ray Junction4.7 miles16
Kelvin5.3 miles16
Hayden Junction5.9 miles16
Troy6.4 miles16
Sonora9.0 miles16
Ray10.2 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122547978The 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 25332. 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.