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Corta Junction, Arizona

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bisbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85603. The Survey maps it on the Bisbee quadrangle.

Corta Junction within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Corta Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,647 acres in total. 13 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/undetermined42
Natural13
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGRASSY HILL
18 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBisbee Fire Departmentnot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
16 September 2004Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeGRASSY
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictKINLEY
26 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeARIZONA STREET
12 August 2020Natural1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictMULE MOUNTAIN
9 July 2017Natural4.0 acresGila District OfficeGREY FACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 92 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 92 workings within 5 miles of Corta Junction: 75 past producers, 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Boras MineCopper, Manganese, Silver, GoldPast Producer1917
Briggs MineCopper, Lead, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
CampbellCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Bismuth, Indium, TinPast Producer
Campbell MineCopper, Manganese, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldPast ProducerReplacement
Caretto Claim GroupLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperOccurrenceGalena
Copper Queen MineCopper, Gemstone, Semiprecious Gemstone, Lead, Zinc, Gold, SilverPast Producer1877, 1881
CupriteCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Czar MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Denn MineCopper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, BismuthPast Producer1905, 1909, 1973
Don Luis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corta Junction in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2013Flash FloodCorta Junction$5,000Two inches of rain fell in less than 30 minutes on the southwest slopes of the Mule Mountains and in Old Bisbee causing extensive street flooding of the historic district. A retaining wall collapsed due to the force of the flowing water. The wall fell on a vehicle, creating dents and breaking the windshield. Flooding also left debris covering Highway 92 near the San Pedro River.

Every storm recorded in Cochise 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
Warren1.1 miles24
Tintown1.5 miles24
Briggs1.7 miles24
South Bisbee1.8 miles24
Don Luis1.8 miles24
Bakerville1.9 miles24
Galena1.9 miles24
Huachuca Terrace2.2 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24383. 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.