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Corner Windmill, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Marana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85735. The Survey maps it on the Three Points quadrangle.

Corner Windmill within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Corner Windmill between 1997 and 2017, burning about 65 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
9 July 2002Natural25 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSNYDER HILL
6 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresPapago AgencySNYDER
4 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named
17 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named
28 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeYELLOW HORSE
25 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named
25 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSIERRITA MOUNTAIN
24 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreThree Points Fire Districtnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Corner Windmill: 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, REE, Barium-Barite, Copper, Manganese. 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
Big BenCopper, ManganeseUnknown
Cocoraque Butte No. 1Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Sierrita Marble PlantREEPast Producer
Twin PigsCopperUnknown
UnknownBarium-Barite, Copper, Lead, ZincUnknown
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima 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
Robles Junction2.9 miles21
Three Points2.9 miles21
San Pedro9.2 miles21
Diamond Bell Ranch10.3 miles15
Nawt Vaya10.7 miles21
Old Tucson12.2 miles22
Old Tucson Estates12.9 miles21
Tucson Estates13.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24382. 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.