Desert Ridge, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85254. The Survey maps it on the Currys Corner quadrangle.

Desert Ridge within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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.

1904 USGS Camelback quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Camelback quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Camelsback quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1930 USGS Cave Creek quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1939 USGS Cave Creek quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Currys Corner quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1964 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Currys Corner quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Theodore Roosevelt Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

403 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 403 fires within 5 miles of Desert Ridge between 2003 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined	388
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	244759
7 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-111664
5 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Phoenix Fire Department	329248
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-111662
3 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Phoenix Fire Department	NOT NAMED
29 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	AZ-111705
26 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
26 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Phoenix Fire Department	356755

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Country Trace	0.2 miles	26
Heritage North Ranch	0.3 miles	26
Basking Ridge	0.5 miles	26
Windsong	0.6 miles	26
Sunset Ridge I	1.0 miles	26
Oakhurst	1.2 miles	26
Greenway Park V	1.8 miles	26
Desert Wind II	2.1 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24827. 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.