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Chuichu, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85193. The Survey maps it on the Chuichu quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,460 feet above sea level.

Chuichu within Pinal County

Population over time

3 figures

Chuichu fell from 339 to 240 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
2000339
2010269-70 (-21%)
2020240-29 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Chuichu between 1992 and 2017, burning about 9,418 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined47
Debris and open burning17
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
9 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCHUICHU06
7 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresPapago AgencySILVERREEF
4 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCHUCHU10
29 July 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRUBISH
23 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 July 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.9 acresPapago AgencyCHUICHU#7
2 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresPapago AgencyCHUICHU05

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Chuichu: 10 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silica, Silver. 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 StandardCopper, Silica, SilverPast Producer
Copper Standard MineCopper, Silver, GoldProducer1895, 1965
Old JonahCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Old Jonah MineCopper, Silver, GoldProducer1895, 1935, 1939
SandpitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silver ReefLead, Silica, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
NuggetSilverPast Producer
Black ChiefManganesePast Producer
Black Jewel ClaimManganesePast Producer1955
Black Prince No. 1 ClaimManganesePast Producer1954

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
Shopishk2.1 miles19
Arizona City6.0 miles20
Arizola7.8 miles20
Vaiva Vo8.0 miles17
Casa Grande8.9 miles18
Toltec9.3 miles19
Tat Momoli11.5 miles17
Jackrabbit House11.8 miles17

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 ChuichuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2149021The 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 2910. 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.