Copper Hill, Arizona
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Globe-Miami census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85501. It lies near Buckeye Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Globe quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,127 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCopper Hill grew from 108 to 158 between 2010 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 108 | |
| 2020 | 158 | +50 (+46%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Globe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1902 USGS Globe quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1945 USGS Globe quadrangle1:24000, 4 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
- 1986 USGS Globe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2004 USGS Globe quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
143 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Copper Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 11 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 | 85 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tri-City Fire District | not named |
| 30 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Tonto National Forest | not named |
| 25 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Globe Fire Department | 1418 |
| 25 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tri-City Fire District | 2663 |
| 23 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Globe Fire Department | 1408 |
| 23 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | not named |
| 9 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Phoenix District Office | SILVER HILL |
| 9 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | RANGER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 135 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 135 workings within 5 miles of Copper Hill: 88 past producers, 32 producers, 6 occurrences, 5 prospects. 32 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Copper, Silver, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Lea Mine | Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum, Vanadium, Zinc | Past Producer | 1941, 1946 | |
| Albert Lea Tunnels | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Apache Mine | Vanadium, Lead, Molybdenum, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Semiprecious Gemstone | Past Producer | 1875, 1929, 1957 | |
| Arizona Commercial Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver, Silica | Past Producer | 1905, 1979 | |
| Big Johnnie Mine | Copper, Iron | Past Producer | 1901 | |
| Copper Hill | Copper, Silica, Silver, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Hill Mine | Silica | Producer | Quartz, Quartzite | |
| Defiance Lead | Lead, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Tungsten, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Doughboy Mine | Copper, Zinc, Vanadium, Silver, Manganese, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Gem Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Manganese, Zinc | Past Producer | 1908, 1947 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Globe | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Central Heights | 2.9 miles | 20 | |
| Midland City | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Radium | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Miami Gardens | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Burch | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Pinal | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Little Acres | 3.9 miles | 20 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5788005 | The 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 42763. 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.









