Fortuna Foothills, Arizona
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Yuma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85367. The Survey maps it on the Fortuna quadrangle. 27,776 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFortuna Foothills grew from 26,265 to 27,776 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 26,265 | |
| 2020 | 27,776 | +1,511 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Fortuna quadrangle1:62500
- 1929 USGS Fortuna quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1942 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS El Centro quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fortuna quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1993 USGS Yuma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
56 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Fortuna Foothills between 1993 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 42 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Yuma Fire Department | 1811718 |
| 22 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado River District | SIPHON |
| 22 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado River District | BLASEDELL2 |
| 22 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado River District | BLASEDELL |
| 2 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yuma Fire Department | 1810520 |
| 11 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Yuma Fire Department | 1810894 |
| 5 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 5 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | FORTUNA TWO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 31 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Fortuna Foothills: 27 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Lead Co Mill | Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Adair Park Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Foothills Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Geothermal | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fortuna | 3.1 miles | 20 | |
| Blaisdell | 3.9 miles | 20 | |
| Araby | 6.0 miles | 27 | |
| Ligurta | 6.3 miles | 19 | |
| Kinter | 6.9 miles | 23 | |
| Dome | 7.2 miles | 24 | |
| San Dionysio (historical) | 10.5 miles | 28 | |
| Kool Corner | 10.9 miles | 23 |
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 Fortuna Foothills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1439085 | The 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 1866984. 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.









