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Elgin, Arizona

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Patagonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85611. It lies near Hay Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Elgin quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,728 feet above sea level.

Elgin within Santa Cruz County

Population over time

2 figures

Elgin grew from 161 to 162 between 2010 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
2010161
2020162+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

104 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Elgin between 1993 and 2020, burning about 11,574 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 3 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
Natural45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2

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
20 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRED BIRD HILLS
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRAIN VALLEY
8 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeBABOCOMARI
30 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMUSTANG
3 August 2000Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRAIN
25 August 2015Natural56 acresGila District OfficeBALD HILL
24 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeRAIN VALLEY
23 August 2011Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeROSE TREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elgin in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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
August 2010HailElgin$10,000An owner of a grape vineyard in Elgin reported hail for 15 minutes with the largest being golf ball size (1.75). Damage to the vineyard was extensive, with nearly all the 2010 grape crop lost. Crop losses at this one vineyard were estimated at six tons which translated to between 10 and 15 thousand dollars, ultimately resulting in a loss of wine valued at 100 to 150 thousand dollars. Extensive damage was also sustained at other vineyards in area. Hail also dented vehicles and broke their windows.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindElgin$5,000no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindElgin$1,000This report goes along with thunderstorm which produced 1.75 inch diameter hail in Elgin. Just before and during the storm, the vineyard owner reported an estimate of at least 60 mph winds. Damage was limited to farm structures and not dwellings.
August 2020Flash FloodElgin-Around 1.5 of rain fell in less than an hour in the Elgin area causing 8 to 12 inches of water to flow across Elgin Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindElgin-Severe thunderstorms resulted in tree limbs eight inches in diameter downed near Elgin.
August 2020HailElgin-no account filed
August 2020HailElgin-no account filed
October 2018HailElgin-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindElgin-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindElgin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Hacienda Los Encino6.5 miles28
Sonoita7.0 miles28
Canelo8.1 miles26
Patagonia14.8 miles22
Harshaw16.4 miles22
Trench Camp17.3 miles22
Alto19.1 miles23
Madera Canyon19.3 miles23

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 ElginAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q511865The 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 28852. 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.

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.