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Calabasas, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Nogales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85648. It stands on Sonoita Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rio Rico quadrangle. It stands 3,461 feet above sea level.

Calabasas within Santa Cruz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

San Cayetano de Calabasas (Mission, Ruins), Santa Cruz River Vicinity, Nogales, Santa Cruz County, AZ
San Cayetano de Calabasas (Mission, Ruins), Santa Cruz River Vicinity, Nogales, Santa Cruz County, AZ
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

113 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Calabasas between 1993 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined93
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Other causes1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
26 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCOCHISE
20 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTIRE
7 August 1995Natural1.0 acresCoronado National ForestRATTANY
5 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRio Rico Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTubac Fire District181041
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Calabasas: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Copper, Copper, Silver. 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
Don Luis QuarrySilicaPast ProducerSandstone
Grand CentralLead, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Mountain View MineCopper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Polario and RegalSilver, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Tubuana MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Tubutana MineCopper, SilverPast Producer1901
Wise ProspectSilver, CopperOccurrence1870
Calabasas AreaTungstenProducerScheelite, Wolframite
ColoradoTungstenProspect
Nogales PlacersGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calabasas in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCalabasas$25,000A severe thunderstorm microburst produced damaging winds in Rio Rico. A portion of a home's roof was blown off, and brought down a power line as it landed in Rio Rico Drive. Thunderstorm winds also blew down several dying trees between the Santa Cruz River bridge and the railroad tracks, and blew down a cyprus tree onto the roof of a home on East Rio Rico Drive. Winds were measured on a neighbor's anemometer at 75 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCalabasas$20,000Thunderstorms winds downed trees and power poles in Rio Rico along Interstate 19.
September 2025HailCalabasas$500Trained spotter estimated hail size of a nickel (0.88 inches in diameter) that damaged a skylight.
July 2022HailCalabasas-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail fell in Rio Rico Southwest for several minutes.
July 2021Flash FloodCalabasas-More than 3 inches of rain in 90 minutes in Rio Rico Southwest caused flash flooding more than 1 foot deep across several roadways.
August 2021Flash FloodCalabasas-Two inches of rain in less than an hour southwest of Rio Rico caused roads in the area to become flooded and impassable.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCalabasas-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
July 2007HailCalabasas-Hail 0.88 in diamter occurred in Rio Rico due to a strong thunderstorm.
August 2021HailCalabasas-no account filed
August 2015HailCalabasas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Rio Rico0.3 miles20
Otero4.8 miles20
Beyerville7.4 miles20
Tumacacori8.1 miles20
Nogales9.0 miles19
Carmen9.2 miles20
Tubac10.7 miles20
Alto10.8 miles23

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 CalabasasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85750066The 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 27169. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.