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Escalante Crossing, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Benson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85630. It stands on Escalante Wash. The Survey maps it on the Land quadrangle.

Escalante Crossing within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Escalante Crossing between 1992 and 2015, burning about 279 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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
11 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
9 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.9 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMESQUITE
6 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeCOTTONWOOD
3 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGila District OfficeCURTIS WASH
27 June 1995Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
24 June 2012Debris and open burning19 acresGila District OfficeCARY
24 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeST DAVID

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Escalante Crossing: 7 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Bentonite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Tungsten. 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
Curtis DiatomiteDiatomiteProspect
Land DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum
Mammoth TungstenTungstenProspect
Bentonite MineBentonitePast Producer
Bentonite MineBentoniteUnknown
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise 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
Curtiss1.9 miles21
Saint David3.0 miles21
Boquillas6.2 miles21
Contention6.4 miles21
Fenner7.6 miles21
Benson Junction8.4 miles21
Benson8.6 miles21
Tully9.6 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24409. 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.