Buenos Aires, 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 Presumido Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Caponera Peak quadrangle.

Buenos Aires 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.

1941 USGS Presumido Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Fresnal quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Presumido Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Caponera Peak quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1994 USGS Sells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Caponera Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Buenos Aires between 1995 and 2017, burning about 562 acres in total. 3 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	5
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
3 August 1995	Natural	1.5 acres	Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge	BUENA V.
27 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Papago Agency	MEQUITE
15 August 2013	Natural	128 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	PRESUMIDO
4 July 2004	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Papago Agency	MEXICO
10 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Papago Agency	BUENOS
1 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge	MEXICO
20 June 2006	Natural	35 acres	Papago Agency	PRESUMIDO
20 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	PRESUMIDO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima 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 Buenos Aires: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Beach and Little George	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Newfield	4.4 miles	17
Sapano Vaya	5.2 miles	17
Kom Kug	6.2 miles	17
Sasabe	6.5 miles	12
Hashan Chuchg	6.9 miles	17
San Miguel	9.1 miles	17
Puertocito	10.5 miles	18
Kuit Vaya	10.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24339. 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.