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Deer Valley, 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 85310. It lies near Adobe Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Hedgpeth Hills quadrangle.

Deer Valley 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

734 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 734 fires within 5 miles of Deer Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined695
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122600
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122601
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122599
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101900
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101899
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department331115
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-132158

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Deer Valley: 17 past producers, 15 unknowns, 6 producers, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Arizona GraniteStone, Crushed/Broken, GraniteProducer
Gravel PitCopper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, GoldUnknown
Happy Canyon PropertyCopperUnknown
ElyGoldProspect
Arizona Gold Decomposed Granite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
J.D. Harris Decomposed Granite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Stone QuarryStonePast ProducerMetamorphic
Stone QuarryStonePast Producer
Thunderbird Granite PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Maricopa County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deer Valley in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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
January 1993HailDeer Valley-no account filed

Every storm 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
Adobe0.7 miles18
Suncrest Villas West1.0 miles19
Villas Plaza1.1 miles18
Rose Garden Place1.5 miles18
Rose Garden Place III1.6 miles18
Amberwood North1.8 miles19
Country Ridge2.0 miles18
Union Hills Manor2.1 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24821. 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.