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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1933 USGS Calabasas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Rio Rico quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Rio Rico quadrangle1:24000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
113 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 93 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | COCHISE |
| 20 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | TIRE |
| 7 August 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Coronado National Forest | RATTANY |
| 5 August 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Rio Rico Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 4 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tubac Fire District | 181041 |
| 24 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 23 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 2 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Luis Quarry | Silica | Past Producer | Sandstone | |
| Grand Central | Lead, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Mountain View Mine | Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Polario and Regal | Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Tubuana Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Tubutana Mine | Copper, Silver | Past Producer | 1901 | |
| Wise Prospect | Silver, Copper | Occurrence | 1870 | |
| Calabasas Area | Tungsten | Producer | Scheelite, Wolframite | |
| Colorado | Tungsten | Prospect | ||
| Nogales Placers | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calabasas | $25,000 | A 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calabasas | $20,000 | Thunderstorms winds downed trees and power poles in Rio Rico along Interstate 19. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Calabasas | $500 | Trained spotter estimated hail size of a nickel (0.88 inches in diameter) that damaged a skylight. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Calabasas | - | Quarter to ping pong ball size hail fell in Rio Rico Southwest for several minutes. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Calabasas | - | 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Calabasas | - | Two inches of rain in less than an hour southwest of Rio Rico caused roads in the area to become flooded and impassable. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calabasas | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Calabasas | - | Hail 0.88 in diamter occurred in Rio Rico due to a strong thunderstorm. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Calabasas | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Calabasas | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Rico | 0.3 miles | 20 | |
| Otero | 4.8 miles | 20 | |
| Beyerville | 7.4 miles | 20 | |
| Tumacacori | 8.1 miles | 20 | |
| Nogales | 9.0 miles | 19 | |
| Carmen | 9.2 miles | 20 | |
| Tubac | 10.7 miles | 20 | |
| Alto | 10.8 miles | 23 |
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 Calabasas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q85750066 | The 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.








