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Country Greens at Villa de Paz, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85037. It stands on New River. The Survey maps it on the El Mirage quadrangle.

Country Greens at Villa de Paz within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

913 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 913 fires within 5 miles of Country Greens at Villa de Paz between 1992 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 33 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/undetermined869
Arson/incendiarism33
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office154832
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101903
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101901
7 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAvondale Fire and Medical Department232342
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department330995
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office155244
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-121611
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-141150

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Country Greens at Villa de Paz: 10 producers, 5 past producers, 5 unknowns, 1 plant. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Brick Clay. 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
Alonzo Elder Muscovite #1MicaProducer
Building Products Co.ClayPlant
Luke Salt Body - Southwest Salt MineHalite, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1968
Tolleson MineBrick ClayProducerClay
Southwest Mine & MillSaltProducer
Southwest SaltSaltProducer
Solid Salt OccurrenceHaliteOccurrence
Unidentified Halite OccurrenceHalitePast ProducerHalite
Agua Fria Pit National S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Allied Concrete PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Villa de Paz0.2 miles23
Liberty Village0.7 miles23
Young America West1.5 miles23
West End1.7 miles23
Westbriar1.8 miles23
Sheffield Place2.0 miles23
Sunrise Terrace2.8 miles27
Dunhill Meadows3.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122566482The 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 24807. 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.