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Cactus Villa, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85259. The Survey maps it on the Sawik Mountain quadrangle.

Cactus Villa within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Cactus Villa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,034 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined145
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111922
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-102209
14 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreScottsdale Fire Department341290
13 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTempe Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
28 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreScottsdale Fire Department319814
28 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133137

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa 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
Casa Rica0.2 miles26
Chimney Hill0.3 miles26
Heritage Court0.5 miles26
Shiloh Canyon0.5 miles26
Preston Hills0.7 miles26
Mirador0.9 miles26
Scottsdale Ranch0.9 miles26
Ensenada del Oro1.0 miles26

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 Q122554122The 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 24752. 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.