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Desert Vista Estates III, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85207. It lies near Double Knolls. The Survey maps it on the Buckhorn quadrangle.

Desert Vista Estates III within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

281 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Desert Vista Estates III between 1992 and 2020, burning about 909 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined265
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Department70804
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperstition Fire and Medical DistrictNOT NAMED
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMesa Fire and Medical Departmentnot named
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMesa Fire and Medical Department70271

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Silver Spur Village0.3 miles21
Silver Spur Ranch0.5 miles21
Sunset Trail Ranch1.1 miles21
Twin Knolls1.3 miles21
East Mesa1.6 miles21
Superstition Country Subdivision1.6 miles21
Fountain of the Sun2.0 miles21
Granite Reef Estates3.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 36967. 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.