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Casa del Oro, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the San Manuel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85739. It lies near The Cordones. The Survey maps it on the Oracle quadrangle.

Casa del Oro within Pinal County

On record in Casa del Oro

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Casa del Oro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,607 acres in total. 14 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/undetermined35
Natural14
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeFALCON
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOracle Volunteer Fire Districtnot named
3 September 1996Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
9 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 August 1995Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 August 1993Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
4 August 2001Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeALTO
30 August 1995Natural1.0 acresArizona 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

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Casa del Oro: 10 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Lead. 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
BurneyLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, TungstenPast Producer
Burney MinesSilver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, ManganeseProducer1947, 1967
Evergreen GroupLead, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Gold Hill MineSilicaPast Producer
Irene WashVermiculiteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Little Hill MineCopper, Molybdenum, Silver, LeadPast Producer1885
Little Hill MinesSilica, FlagstoneProducer
Little Mattie ClaimsCopper, Lead, Vermiculite, Gold, Silica, SilverProspect
North Cross ExtensionGold, Lead, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper, VanadiumOccurrence
Orizaba PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Saddle Brooke3.3 miles20
Oracle4.5 miles20
Oracle Junction5.0 miles21
Highjinks5.6 miles28
Campo Bonito5.7 miles28
San Manuel11.4 miles28
Fordville11.8 miles25
Tiger12.4 miles25

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 Q122569556The 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 27316. 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.