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Copper Creek, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the San Manuel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85618. It lies near Saloon Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove Canyon quadrangle. It stands 3,983 feet above sea level.

Copper Creek within Pinal County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Copper Creek between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,618 acres in total. 20 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
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 August 1995Natural30 acresGila District OfficeNORTHFORK
5 August 1995Natural713 acresGila District OfficeSOMBRERO
3 August 2020Natural60 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictTABLE
24 August 2020Natural71 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictSIXTYSIX PEAK
2 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
1 August 1993Natural360 acresGila District OfficeCHIMNEY
4 July 2014Natural4.6 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBUNKER
4 July 2014Natural6.1 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMERCER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Copper Creek: 35 occurrences, 17 past producers, 11 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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
American Eagle MineCopper, Molybdenum, Lead, ZincPast ProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Blue Bird MineLead, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum, Vanadium, IronPast Producer1863
BluebirdCopper, Silver, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Bluebird MineLead, Copper, Silver, Gold, Vanadium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum, ManganesePast Producer1863
Bunker Hill South-AditsCopper, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, GoldUnknown
Childs-Aldwinkle MineMolybdenum, Copper, Silver, Gold, Arsenic, Zinc, Lead, Bismuth, AntimonyPast Producer1883, 1890
Clark MineCopper, Silver, Gold, LeadProducer1905, 1934
Copper Creek DistrictGemstone, QuartzProspect
Copper Giant MineCopper, TungstenPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Wolframite
Copper Prince MineCopper, Tungsten, MolybdenumPast Producer1907

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copper Creek in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2022Thunderstorm WindCopper Creek-Horse Camp RAWS measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCopper Creek-The Horse Camp RAWS measured a wind gust of 65 mph.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCopper Creek-Horse Camp RAWS recorded wind gust of 61 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCopper Creek-Horse Camp RAWS recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCopper Creek-A 69 mph gust occurred at the Horse Camp RAWS.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCopper Creek-A thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph was recorded by the Horse Camp RAWS station.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindCopper Creek-A thunderstorm wind gust of 64 mph was measured at Horse Camp Canyon RAWS.

Every storm 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
Sombrero Butte1.7 miles21
Blake Place4.6 miles24
Parsons Grove5.1 miles19
Mammoth8.9 miles25
North Mammoth9.1 miles25
Hortons Place10.4 miles23
Tiger11.3 miles25
Fordville12.0 miles25

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 Copper CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5168722The 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 24379. 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.