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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.

Copper Hill within Gila County

Population over time

2 figures

Copper 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.

YearPeople Change
2010108
2020158+50 (+46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

143 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined85
Natural24
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTri-City Fire Districtnot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTonto National Forestnot named
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlobe Fire Department1418
25 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTri-City Fire District2663
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGlobe Fire Department1408
23 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
9 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhoenix District OfficeSILVER HILL
9 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestRANGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 135 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Albert Lea MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum, Vanadium, ZincPast Producer1941, 1946
Albert Lea TunnelsSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, VanadiumPast Producer
Apache MineVanadium, Lead, Molybdenum, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Semiprecious GemstonePast Producer1875, 1929, 1957
Arizona Commercial MineCopper, Gold, Silver, SilicaPast Producer1905, 1979
Big Johnnie MineCopper, IronPast Producer1901
Copper HillCopper, Silica, Silver, UraniumPast Producer
Copper Hill MineSilicaProducerQuartz, Quartzite
Defiance LeadLead, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Tungsten, VanadiumPast Producer
Doughboy MineCopper, Zinc, Vanadium, Silver, Manganese, MolybdenumPast ProducerVein
Gem MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Manganese, ZincPast Producer1908, 1947

Every working recorded in Gila 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
Globe2.7 miles20
Central Heights2.9 miles20
Midland City3.4 miles20
Radium3.5 miles20
Miami Gardens3.7 miles20
Burch3.7 miles20
Pinal3.8 miles20
Little Acres3.9 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 Copper HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5788005The 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.