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Fort McDowell, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Salt River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85264. It stands on Sycamore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort McDowell quadrangle. It stands 1,440 feet above sea level.

Fort McDowell within Maricopa County

On record in Fort McDowell

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Fort McDowell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 708 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking6
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
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
27 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt River AgencyHOUSE 21
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSalt River AgencyLONG
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestMEDIAN
15 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt River AgencyDRUDGE
14 September 1992Natural8.0 acresTonto National Forestnot named
9 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreSalt River AgencyBEE
4 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSalt River AgencyCIRCLE
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt River AgencyHOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort McDowell: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Mcdowell Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Mcdowell Clay DepositClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Fountain Hills2.8 miles25
Fountain View3.6 miles25
Rio Verde5.9 miles26
Rio Verde Estates6.0 miles26
Taliesin West9.2 miles26
McDowell Mountain Ranch9.2 miles29
Shiloh Canyon9.8 miles26
Cactus Villa10.1 miles26

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 Fort McDowellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5471629The 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 29117. 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.