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Carmen, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Nogales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85640. It lies near Aliso Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Tubac quadrangle. It stands 3,271 feet above sea level.

Carmen within Santa Cruz County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Carmen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined20
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
18 August 2003Natural1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSPARKLETT
15 August 1992Naturalunder an acreCoronado National Forestnot named
17 July 1997Natural1.0 acresCoronado National ForestTUMACACORI
14 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTubac Fire District180936
13 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGREEN VALLEY
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTubac Fire District180923
1 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictTOP VIEW
6 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTubac Fire DistrictNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carmen: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, 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
Lone Wolf GroupCopper, Silver, Gold, TungstenProspect
San PedroSilver, Gold, CopperProducer
UnknownGold, CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmen in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCarmen-A trained weather spotter near Tubac estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph at her home.
October 2018HailCarmen-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
Tumacacori1.3 miles20
Tubac1.8 miles20
Sotos Crossing (historical)3.1 miles19
Otero4.4 miles20
Agua Linda6.3 miles19
Amado8.3 miles19
Rio Rico9.0 miles20
Calabasas9.2 miles20

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 CarmenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30587826The 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 27290. 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.