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Circle City, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wickenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85342. The Survey maps it on the Wittmann quadrangle. 522 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Circle City within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Circle City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 340 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined88
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
25 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCircle City-Morristown Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
9 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTRILBY
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCircle City-Morristown Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
14 August 1995Natural1.2 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
23 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Fire and Medical Authority186536

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Circle City: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, 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
Arizona PlacersGoldProspect
Cactus GroupCopper, LeadOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Maricopa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Circle City in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
September 2013Flash FloodCircle City$5,000During the late morning of September 10th thunderstorms developed from north of Wickenburg southward towards the northwestern fringes of the greater Phoenix area. They produced locally heavy rainfall; a flood control gage just east of Wickenburg measured 1.25 inches of rain within 15 minutes ending at 1134MST and another gage in Circle City measured 1.26 inches in less than one hour. Flash flooding resulted across portions of north central Maricopa county and by 1125MST a Flash Flood Warning was in effect. Radar and gage data indicated that rainfall rates approached 2 inches per hour in the area from Circle City northwestward towards Wickenburg; at 1233MST a Maricopa County Sheriff's deputy reported flash flooding in the Community of Circle City. Heavy rains continued into the early afternoon and then gradually tapered off. Due to the persistent runoff impacting area roads as well as heavily running washes, an Areal Flood Warning was then issued at 1330MST for the Grand Avenue Corridor extending from Wittmann to Wickenburg and it continued until 2130MST.
September 2019Flash FloodCircle City-Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed across the northern and western portions of the greater Phoenix area during the late morning, and they continued into the afternoon. Some of the storms generated locally heavy rains with peak rain rates well in excess of one inch per hour. The heavy rains led to episodes of flash flooding, some of which occurred over rather open country such as the Hassayampa Plain well to the northwest of Phoenix. The flash flooding resulted in rapid rises in area washes, causing them to quickly exceed alarms stages. At 1348MST a flood control district stream gauge along Daggs Wash and West Peak View Road indicated that water quickly exceeded both alarm and bank full stages. The flash flooding resulted in quick inundation of area low water crossings. The gauge was located roughly 10 miles southwest of Circle City. A Flash Flood Warning was issued for the area at 1326MST and was in effect at the time of the flooding. No injuries were reported due to the flash flooding.
August 2012Flash FloodCircle City-Scattered thunderstorms developed across northern portions of Maricopa county during the evening hours, and the storms generated locally heavy rainfall with rain rates in excess of one inch per hour. The heavy rain led to excessive urban flooding, which prompted the issuance of an Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory at 9 pm for north central portions of Maricopa county, including the town of Circle City. According to local law enforcement, at about 945 pm water was reported to be rapidly running across the road at the intersection of 211th Avenue and Highway 74. This intersection is located 4 miles east of Circle City. Law enforcement also indicated that water was flowing over the road at 170th Avenue and Dixileta Road, about 6 miles northwest of Beardsley. This flooding occurred at about 950 pm. No injuries were reported as a result of the flooding.

Every storm recorded in Maricopa 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
Morristown3.6 miles17
Wittmann3.9 miles17
Allah9.7 miles17
Wickenburg13.2 miles17
Vistancia14.1 miles17
Beardsley15.1 miles18
Waddell16.3 miles18
Sun City West16.5 miles20

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 Circle CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5121402The 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 2956. 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.