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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.

Fortuna Foothills within Yuma County

Population over time

2 figures

Fortuna 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.

YearPeople Change
201026,265
202027,776+1,511 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

56 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
30 September 2018Naturalunder an acreYuma Fire Department1811718
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado River DistrictSIPHON
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictBLASEDELL2
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictBLASEDELL
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYuma Fire Department1810520
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreYuma Fire Department1810894
5 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
5 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeFORTUNA TWO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yuma County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arizona Lead Co MillFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, StonePast Producer
Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Adair Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Foothills Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown
UnknownGeothermalUnknown

Every working recorded in Yuma 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
Fortuna3.1 miles20
Blaisdell3.9 miles20
Araby6.0 miles27
Ligurta6.3 miles19
Kinter6.9 miles23
Dome7.2 miles24
San Dionysio (historical)10.5 miles28
Kool Corner10.9 miles23

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 FoothillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1439085The 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.