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Diamond Point Shadows, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85541. It lies near Schoolhouse Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Diamond Point quadrangle.

Diamond Point Shadows within Gila County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Diamond Point Shadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 71 acres in total. 118 started naturally. 17 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
Natural118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Recreation and ceremony29
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking3
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 2009Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestMAYFIELD
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTonto National ForestYERBA
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestCAVE
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestTIGER
3 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTonto National ForestLION
28 September 2014Naturalunder an acreTonto National ForestHUNTER
25 September 2011Smokingunder an acreTonto National ForestHOUSTON
23 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreTonto National ForestMOTOR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Diamond Point Shadows: 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Silver, Quartz, Semiprecious Gemstone. 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
Diamond RimQuartz, Semiprecious GemstoneProducer
Ezell ClaimsSilverProspect
Neptune PropertyUranium, CopperProspect
Baronite GroupBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Baronite GroupBarium-BariteProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gila 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
Star Valley2.0 miles23
Mesa del Caballo3.9 miles23
Wonder Valley4.9 miles23
Freedom Acres5.2 miles23
Tonto Village5.9 miles25
Payson5.9 miles22
Beaver Valley Estates6.0 miles23
Thompson Draw Summer Homes Unit Two6.4 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 Q122595315The 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 40819. 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.