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Cazador, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Douglas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85607. The Survey maps it on the College Peaks quadrangle.

Cazador within Cochise 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

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Cazador between 1994 and 2018, burning about 4,558 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined10
Natural6
Debris and open burning3
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
6 August 2018Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictHOG CANNON
2 August 1994Natural1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
18 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePEDREGOSA
24 July 2018Natural4,447 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictBRUNO
15 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHEALY
21 June 1994Natural50 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
15 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCOLLEGE
13 June 2014Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCOLLEGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cazador: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Gypsite QuarriesGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working 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
Bernardino (historical)5.9 miles19
Pirtleville11.9 miles23
Chiricahua11.9 miles20
Douglas12.1 miles23
Calumet13.6 miles23
Double Adobe14.3 miles23
McNeal15.2 miles19
Forrest18.3 miles22

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 Q122597125The 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 24349. 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.