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East Sahuarita, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85629. The Survey maps it on the Sahuarita quadrangle. 1,419 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 2,782 feet above sea level.

East Sahuarita within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of East Sahuarita between 1992 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined62
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
10 September 1999Natural1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDUVAL
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictSAHURITA
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
8 July 2002Natural2.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSAHURITA
3 July 2019Naturalunder an acreGreen Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire District6451

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Sahuarita: 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Copper, Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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
Eagle-Picher Mill Tailing DumpTungsten, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Twin Buttes Oxide PlantCopperProducer
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

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
Sahuarita Heights0.5 miles20
Duval1.8 miles20
Sahuarita1.8 miles20
Green Valley Pueblo Estates4.7 miles20
Continental6.7 miles20
Green Valley7.0 miles20
Twin Buttes7.5 miles21
Corona de Tucson8.2 miles21

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 East SahuaritaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1277999The 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 1853157. 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.