Continental Village, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85258. The Survey maps it on the Sawik Mountain quadrangle.

Continental Village within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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.

1904 USGS Camelback quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Camelback quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Camelsback quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1930 USGS Cave Creek quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1939 USGS Cave Creek quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Sawik Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1971 USGS Sawik Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Theodore Roosevelt Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Continental Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,075 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined	169
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-111922
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-102209
14 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Scottsdale Fire Department	341290
14 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	249364
30 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	3285
28 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
28 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Tempe Fire Department	NOT NAMED
28 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Scottsdale Fire Department	319814

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Scottsdale Ranch	0.4 miles	26
Mission Monterey	0.6 miles	26
Andalusia	0.6 miles	26
Mirador	0.7 miles	26
Heritage Court	0.8 miles	26
Haciendas del Lago	0.9 miles	26
Ensenada del Oro	0.9 miles	26
Chimney Hill	1.1 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24799. 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.