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Eloy, Arizona

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Eloy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85131. The Survey maps it on the Eloy North quadrangle. 15,635 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,555 feet above sea level.

Eloy within Pinal County

Population over time

2 figures

Eloy fell from 16,631 to 15,635 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
201016,631
202015,635-996 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Eloy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,833 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined176
Debris and open burning27
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyCHUI CHU 2
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeELEVEN MILE
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEloy Fire Districtnot named
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEloy Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMCCLELLAN
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office1090
17 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona 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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Eloy: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
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
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eloy in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindEloy1 hurt, $1,000,000Thunderstorm winds up to 75 mph impacted Eloy, Arizona when a microburst descended near the Volvo equipment rental facility. These strong winds resulted in significant damage in a divergent pattern across southeast portions of Eloy. A total of 20 homes sustained significant damage. Some had roof structures blown off, while some suffered total roof collapses and one had a tree fell on it and a nearby vehicle. Of the 20 homes, 14 were condemned. Several other homes sustained damage due to flying debris while still others only had shingle damage. In addition, eight businesses were damaged beyond repair including one that also collapsed onto cars and equipment. Several power poles were also downed resulting in widespread power outages in the August heat forcing Eloy to set up a cooling center in a local high school. A number of semi-tractor trailers were also blown over in a parking lot. One person sustained minor injuries when winds ripped the roof off a mobile home.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEloy$75,000Thunderstorm winds caused damage in Eloy. The sheet metal roof and a wall of a tire shop was blown off near Sunshine Blvd and Frontier St. and a nearby power pole was damaged. A tree was blown onto power lines near 5th and D streets and an empty semi trailer was blown on its side near Santa Cruz Ave. and 1st St.
August 1999LightningEloy$60,000Lightning caused a house fire.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEloy$50,000A line of severe thunderstorms moving through south-central Pinal county knocked down several power poles and power lines.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEloy$25,000Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a storage building, an awning at a gas station and downed several trees in Eloy.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindEloy$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew a mobile home over and into the yard of next door residence.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEloy$2,000A line of severe thunderstorms moved across southeast Pinal county. Damaging winds downed 2 power poles and ripped off small porches and awnings in a trailer park in the Eloy area.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEloy$2,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEloy$500Thunderstorm winds damaged equipment causing power outage to 8 customers for an unknown duration of time.
October 2025FloodEloy$500Pinal County Sherriff reported water rescue in flood waters most of the way up the stranded car. Rescue was on Battaglia Drive between Highway 87 and La Palma road. Battaglia Drive was reported to have been already closed due to flood waters. Rainfall occurred afternoon of October 13 and a Flash Flood Warning had been previously issued with those thunderstorms.
November 2019Flash FloodEloy-A strong low developing west of Arizona began to spread considerable moisture, some of it tropical in nature, into central and southeast Arizona during the evening hours on November 19th. Widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms developed leading to moderate or even heavy rain at times. The heavy rain caused some flash flooding southeast of Phoenix and around the town of Arizona City during the early evening. According to the Arizona Department of Highways, flash flooding caused the closure of Alsdorf Road from Sunland Gin to Lamb Roads. Other minor flooding was also reported in Casa Grande, however this did not result in road closures.
July 2010Heavy RainEloy-Rainfall of .63 inch in only 20 minutes. Winds were estimated at 40 mph with thunderstorms.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindEloy-Thunderstorm winds knocked down phone lines, damaged the roofs of a few mobile homes, knocked over dumpsters, and blew down some trees.
May 2005HailEloy-no account filed
September 1999HailEloy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pinal 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
Toltec4.1 miles19
Picacho4.2 miles19
Arizona City6.2 miles20
Eleven Mile Corner8.6 miles21
La Palma8.8 miles21
Friendly Corners9.5 miles19
Wymola10.4 miles19
Arizola10.7 miles20

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 EloyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q80072The 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 4421. 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.