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Cascabel, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Benson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85602. It stands on Hot Springs Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Soza Canyon quadrangle. It stands 3,196 feet above sea level.

Cascabel within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cascabel between 1992 and 2009, burning about 5,183 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
1 July 1994Natural5,153 acresCoronado National ForestREDINGTON
25 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCASCABEL
20 May 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSan Carlos AgencySTEELE
18 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Carlos AgencyCHINA
12 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Carlos AgencySPRING
12 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Carlos AgencyBRIDGE
21 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Cascabel: 8 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Geothermal, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum, Tungsten. 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
Little ChristmasGold, SilverOccurrence
UnknownGoldProspect
Unnamed ProspectMolybdenum, TungstenOccurrenceVein
Driscoll Mountain ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceVein
Driscoll Mtn ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Name UnknownGeothermalProducer
Redfield ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
Robles SpringUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cascabel in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2015Flash FloodCascabel1 hurt, $8,000A woman and her dog became trapped in their truck when she attempted to drive through a flooded wash crossing Cascabel Road. The woman did not realize that water had washed the road away. When she attempted to cross the wash, the vehicle dropped 3 feet into the water before it was pushed downstream about 200 yards. Cascabel fire personnel and civilians were able to rescue both the woman and her dog. The woman was transported to a nearby hospital and treated for severe hypothermia.
July 2017Flash FloodCascabel$10,000Flash flooding caused a vehicle to be swept away on Cascabel Road. Driver was swept three-quarters of a mile downstream to the San Pedro River resulting in the need to be rescued.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCascabel$5,000A metal three-sided hay barn was flattened by thunderstorm winds at an exotic bird sanctuary in Cascabel, AZ.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindCascabel-A thunderstorm gust to 76 mph was recorded at Muleshoe Ranch RAWS in northwest Cochise County.
September 1993HailCascabel-Crops and pecan trees were badly damaged by large hail.
August 2020HailCascabel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cochise 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
Hookers Hot Springs8.1 miles19
Bradberry8.9 miles19
Chamiso20.6 miles21
Pomerene20.7 miles21
Mescal21.0 miles21
Johnson21.1 miles19
Benson22.8 miles21
Fenner23.5 miles21

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 CascabelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5048071The 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 27318. 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.