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Cactus Forest, Arizona

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85132. The Survey maps it on the Cactus Forest quadrangle. 606 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Cactus Forest within Pinal County

Population over time

2 figures

Cactus Forest grew from 594 to 606 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010594
2020606+12 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Cactus Forest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,947 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
18 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
18 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
17 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictDIFFEN
4 August 1995Smoking2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePHOENIX
14 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cactus Forest: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Roadside Silver PropertySilver, Copper, GoldProspect
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein
Zig Zag GroupManganesePast Producer1952
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
SandpitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

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
Florence6.1 miles19
Valley Farms7.0 miles16
Adamsville7.4 miles19
Price10.4 miles19
Coolidge10.6 miles21
Randolph10.8 miles21
La Palma11.8 miles21
Borree Corner12.7 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on Cactus ForestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5016162The 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 2347. 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.