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Fenner, 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 85602. The Survey maps it on the Saint David quadrangle. It stands 3,711 feet above sea level.

Fenner 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Fenner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 330 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/undetermined59
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
4 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeEXIT 306
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMILEPOST 312
27 September 1992Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
20 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePOST
16 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
10 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTRUCK
8 July 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fenner: 10 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Bentonite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Benson DepositGypsum-Anhydrite, BentoniteOccurrenceBentonite, Gypsum, Selenite
Industrial Management Corp PumicePumiceOccurrence
LandGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Pit No.1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pomerene MillTungstenPast Producer
Post Ranch DiatomiteDiatomitePast Producer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer
UnknownGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Cochise County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fenner in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
June 2008HailFenner-A trained spotter reported 0.88 inch hail east of Benson.

Every storm 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
Benson3.4 miles21
Pomerene3.6 miles21
Saint David4.6 miles21
Tully5.8 miles21
Curtiss5.9 miles21
Chamiso6.7 miles21
Escalante Crossing7.6 miles21
Mescal10.9 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.

Wikidata item Q28221594The 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 24415. 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.