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Drexel Heights, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85746. It lies near Beehive Peak. The Survey maps it on the Cat Mountain quadrangle. 27,523 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,526 feet above sea level.

Drexel Heights within Pima County

Population over time

2 figures

Drexel Heights grew from 23,849 to 27,523 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
200023,849
202027,523+3,674 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

813 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 813 fires within 5 miles of Drexel Heights between 1993 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined745
Natural18
Arson/incendiarism17
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1862510
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1862597
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1861806
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Departmentnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDrexel Heights Fire District5592
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Departmentnot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Drexel Heights: 15 past producers, 10 occurrences, 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Barium-Barite, Gold, Lead. 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-Tonopah MineLead, Silver, Copper, GoldProducer1925, 1929
Battle Axe MineSilica, Copper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1907, 1970
Bee Hive MineCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldProducerChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite
Ivy May MineCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldProducer1920, 1934
Old Mission MineSilver, Copper, Lead, Gold, Iron, Manganese, Barium-BariteProducerArgentite, Hematite
Old Mission MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Palo Verde MineLead, Gold, Copper, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Palo Verde Mine AmoleZinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Pellegrin MineSilver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Saginaw MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, MolybdenumPast ProducerPorphyry Cu

Every working recorded in Pima 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
Black Mountain Estates2.3 miles20
Emery Park3.8 miles25
Tucson Estates4.6 miles21
Old Tucson Estates4.7 miles21
South Tucson5.1 miles25
Pueblo Gardens6.1 miles25
Summit6.5 miles25
El Rio6.8 miles25

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.

Wikipedia article on Drexel HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1258838The 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 25237. 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.