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Catalina, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85739. The Survey maps it on the Oracle Junction quadrangle. 7,551 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,123 feet above sea level.

Catalina within Pima County

Population over time

3 figures

Catalina grew from 7,025 to 7,551 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20007,025
20107,569+544 (+8%)
20207,551-18 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Catalina between 1992 and 2020, burning about 939 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined95
Natural7
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolder Ranch Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolder Ranch Fire District1829385
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolder Ranch Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolder Ranch Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
18 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGolder Ranch Fire District1828098
7 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolder Ranch Fire District1823268

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Catalina: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Gold Channel Placer #1-36GoldPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Unnamed Prospect Ml108CopperOccurrenceUnknown
Unnamed Prospect Ml59CopperOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Pima 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
Oro Valley8.3 miles23
Loma Linda9.6 miles23
Summerhaven9.7 miles23
Tortolita9.7 miles19
Soldier Camp11.0 miles24
Tucson National Estates11.9 miles20
Whitetail12.0 miles24
Skyline Bel Aire Estates12.9 miles26

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 CatalinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q549434The 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 37213. 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.