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Country Meadows, 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 85351. The Survey maps it on the El Mirage quadrangle.

Country Meadows 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

700 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 700 fires within 5 miles of Country Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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/undetermined660
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-110821
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEl Mirage Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSun City Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-133152
4 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEl Mirage Fire Department3065
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111961
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSun City Fire Departmentnot named
30 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-121841

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Country Meadows: 8 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Agua Fria Pit Sun Valley CrushingSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alonzo Elder Muscovite #1MicaProducer
Luke Salt Body - Southwest Salt MineHalite, Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer1968
Southwest Mine & MillSaltProducer
Southwest SaltSaltProducer
Unidentified Halite OccurrenceHalitePast ProducerHalite
Agua Fria Pit National S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Arizona Sand & Rock, Agua Fria PlanSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel

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
Westgreen Estates1.7 miles19
Peoria Polynesian Village2.1 miles19
Youngtown2.2 miles19
Casa del Sol Resorts Number One2.2 miles19
Villa Vista2.2 miles19
Sunset Village2.3 miles19
Sun City2.3 miles19
Peoria2.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24810. 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.