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Dos Cabezas, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85643. It lies near Mascot Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Dos Cabezas quadrangle.

Dos Cabezas within Cochise County

On record in Dos Cabezas

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Dos Cabezas between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,090 acres in total. 11 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined12
Natural11
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
13 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresChiricahua National MonumentMOGULWASH
13 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMOGUL WASH
9 August 2015Natural27 acresGila District OfficeGOLD GULCH
24 August 1994Natural300 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
22 August 2020Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeHOWARD
7 July 1997Natural300 acresChiricahua National MonumentMOGUL
4 July 2017Natural270 acresGila District OfficeSIPHON
26 July 2014Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBUTTERFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Dos Cabezas: 32 past producers, 8 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Copper, Graphite. 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
AntelopeSilver, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Dives MineGold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Dives Mine Bear Cave ClaimGold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GraphitePast Producer1877, 1942
Dos CabezasGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincOccurrence1988
Dos Cabezas ProjectGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence1878, 1880
Dos Cabezas Queen MineGold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, GraphitePast ProducerVein
Elma MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum, IronProducerChalcopyrite, Magnetite
Elma MineGold, Silver, Copper, MolybdenumPast Producer
Ewell Spring MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, GraphitePast ProducerVein
Ewell Springs MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincUnknown

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dos Cabezas in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flash flood. 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
July 2011Flash FloodDos Cabezas$100,000Heavy rain occurred over the Horseshoe 2 burn scar area of the Chiricahua Mountains. The Horseshoe 2 BAER team reported three washouts on Pinery Road in the northern portions of the Chiricahua Mountains.

Every storm recorded in Cochise 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
Buckeye Mill5.8 miles17
Kansas Settlement11.0 miles16
Bowie12.4 miles17
Luzena12.4 miles17
Willcox12.8 miles18
Bowie Junction (historical)12.9 miles17
Raso13.5 miles18
Olga16.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 4036. 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.