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Cowlic, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. It lies near Vamori Valley. The Survey maps it on the Cowlic quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Cowlic within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Cowlic fell from 135 to 105 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
2010135
2020105-30 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cowlic between 1993 and 2015, burning about 181 acres in total. None 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
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
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyCOWLIC UDA FIRE
24 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyTECOLOTE
31 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyCOWLIC FIRE
30 May 2013Debris and open burning3.4 acresPapago AgencyALVAREZ
3 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresPapago AgencyCEMETERY
28 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyDUMP
28 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyTANK
27 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyHUGHES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cowlic: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Geothermal. 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
Blue SlopeCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cowlic in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCowlic$35,000Thunderstorm winds damaged eight homes in the Cowlic area. Three homes sustained major roof damage. One of those also had a wall collapse.

Every storm 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
Vopolo Havoka4.8 miles17
San Rafael5.3 miles8
Chukut Kuk6.8 miles8
Vakamok7.4 miles8
Vamori7.5 miles16
Itak7.9 miles8
Gu Oidak8.3 miles8
Topawa8.7 miles16

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 CowlicAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16084788The 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 3470. 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.