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Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Coolidge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85194. The Survey maps it on the Coolidge quadrangle.

Eleven Mile Corner within Pinal 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.

Photographs

8 of 15 photographs shown, 1942

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital, FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Little boy who was operated on for appendicitis
Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital, FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Little boy who was operated on for appendicitis
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona
Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
In the nursery at the Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona
In the nursery at the Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Home economics teacher demonstrating to schoolgirls the proper methods of preparing various foods
Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Home economics teacher demonstrating to schoolgirls the proper methods of preparing various foods
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Baby is weighed at the well baby clinic which is held weekly at the Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona
Baby is weighed at the well baby clinic which is held weekly at the Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Laboratory technician
Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Laboratory technician
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Formula for the babies in the nursery at the Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona
Formula for the babies in the nursery at the Cairns General Hospital at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress
Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital, FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. National Youth Administration girls helping in the hospital kitchen
Eleven Mile Corner, Arizona. Cairns General Hospital, FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers' community. National Youth Administration girls helping in the hospital kitchen
Lee, Russell, 1942. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Pinal County

Fires near this place

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Eleven Mile Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 527 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined111
Debris and open burning19
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEloy Fire Districtnot named
26 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
17 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCANAL
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeNOT NAMED
13 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMILE
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeFLORENCE
30 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Eleven Mile Corner: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Copper, Silica. 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
Randolph GypsumGypsum-AnhydriteProspectGypsum
Southwest Silver Corporation # 1Silver, Copper, SilicaPast Producer
Coolidge Pit & Plant #7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eleven Mile Corner in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindEleven Mile Corner$25,000Five power poles blown down at Randolph and Eleven Mile Corner roads. A police car was damaged by a dumpster that was blown around by the wind. Trees were uprooted in Coolidge.
October 2015HailEleven Mile Corner-Scattered thunderstorms developed across the central deserts during the afternoon hours on October 6th; due to favorable atmospheric conditions aloft, one of the stronger storms generated large hail near the community of Casa Grande. According to local law enforcement, at 1510MST golf ball sized hail was measured between Randolf and Casa Grande. The largest stones had a diameter of 1.75 inches.
October 2015HailEleven Mile Corner-Scattered thunderstorms developed across the central deserts of Arizona during the afternoon hours on October 6th. Due to a combination of strong winds aloft and elevated instability values, the stronger storms produced large hail which affected northwest Pinal county. According to a trained weather spotter, at about 1520MST hailstones the size of a half dollar were measured at the Pinal County fairgrounds, located just to the east of the town of Casa Grande. The largest stones had a diameter of 1.25 inches.

Every storm recorded in Pinal County

Newspapers printed here

46 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 8 issues, 46 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
News1940 to 1941

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
La Palma2.8 miles21
Randolph3.8 miles21
Borree Corner6.5 miles21
Toltec6.5 miles19
Coolidge7.3 miles21
Arizola8.0 miles20
Eloy8.6 miles19
Valley Farms9.8 miles16

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 Eleven Mile CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25021570The 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 24404. 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.