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Fountain View, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85268. The Survey maps it on the Granite Reef Dam quadrangle.

Fountain View within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Fountain View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,592 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Debris and open burning3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
15 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt River AgencyDRUDGE
9 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreSalt River AgencyBEE
4 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSalt River AgencyCIRCLE
20 August 2020Natural615 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central DistrictMCDOWELL
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt River AgencyHOOD
12 August 2015Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSalt River AgencyDUTHYANKA
4 July 1992Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresSalt River AgencyHOUSE 94

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fountain View: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Clay, Copper, Silver. 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
Red MountainCopper, Silver, Tin, GoldProspect
Dixie Copper MineCopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Red Mountain MineCopperPast ProducerVein
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel

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 Hills0.8 miles25
Fort McDowell3.6 miles26
Taliesin West5.9 miles26
Shiloh Canyon6.3 miles26
McDowell Mountain Ranch6.4 miles29
Cactus Villa6.7 miles26
Chimney Hill6.8 miles26
Casa Rica6.9 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 36990. 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.