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Craycroft, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85711. The Survey maps it on the Tucson quadrangle.

Craycroft within Pima County

On record in Craycroft

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 25 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

1,737 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,737 fires within 5 miles of Craycroft between 1994 and 2020, burning about 262 acres in total. 44 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/undetermined1634
Natural44
Arson/incendiarism33
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
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
9 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1862474
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Departmentnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1861728
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1861641

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Craycroft: 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Crushing,Screening & Bagging PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Acme PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cindrich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant 23Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalPast Producer
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
Vandenberg Village1.9 miles27
Kingston Knolls Terrace2.2 miles27
Polvo2.3 miles25
Tucson2.9 miles25
Rolling Hills Country Club Estates3.4 miles27
Pueblo Gardens3.5 miles25
Indian Ridge Estates3.7 miles27
Tucson Country Club Estates3.7 miles27

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 Q122562214The 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 25235. 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.