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Castle Dome Landing, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Yuma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85365. It stands on Los Angeles Wash. The Survey maps it on the Imperial Reservoir quadrangle. It stands 203 feet above sea level.

Castle Dome Landing within Yuma County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Castle Dome Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,605 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony20
Natural12
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks3

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
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictSQUAW LAKE
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central DistrictMARTINEZ
16 September 2008Natural22 acresColorado River DistrictRED CLOUD
1 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColorado River DistrictMARTINEZ ASSIST
8 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreImperial National Wildlife RefugeMCAS REC. CENTER
29 August 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresImperial National Wildlife RefugeCHIPPER
28 August 1999Natural15 acresColorado River DistrictFLIP
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreImperial National Wildlife RefugeSOUTH PIONT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Castle Dome Landing: 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Geothermal. 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
Copper Glance ProspectCopperOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
AyerszonaGoldOccurrence
Million Dollar Gold MineGoldOccurrence
Red Fox MineGoldOccurrence
Senator MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Yellow Dog MineGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Yuma 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
Fishers Landing0.5 miles25
Laguna10.1 miles23
Kool Corner11.5 miles23
Kinter14.8 miles23
Dome15.4 miles24
San Dionysio (historical)15.7 miles28
Blaisdell17.5 miles20
Yuma18.6 miles27

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 Castle Dome LandingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5050047The 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 24347. 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.