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Gila Crossing, Arizona

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Johns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85339. It stands on Santa Cruz Wash. The Survey maps it on the Laveen quadrangle. 636 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Gila Crossing within Maricopa County

Population over time

2 figures

Gila Crossing grew from 621 to 636 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
2010621
2020636+15 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

996 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 996 fires within 5 miles of Gila Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,188 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 126 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/undetermined583
Debris and open burning201
Arson/incendiarism126
Misuse of fire by a minor46
Equipment and vehicle use24
Smoking4
Fireworks4
Natural2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-132220
8 September 1992Debris and open burning3.0 acresPima AgencyH.SCHOOL
7 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyVEE QUIVA
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyBELTLINE
6 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresPima AgencyWASH2
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyPECOS
5 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acrePima AgencyWATER TANK
30 September 1993Debris and open burning8.0 acresPima AgencyHORSE

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 Gila Crossing: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Silica, Quartz, Silica. 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
Butterfly Mountain AreaMica, Silica, QuartzPast ProducerMuscovite, Sericite
Butterfly Mtn Area Mica DepositMica, SilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Maricopa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gila Crossing in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGila Crossing$3,000Thunderstorms affected much of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area during the afternoon hours on August 27th, including southern communities such as Ahwatukee. Some of the stronger storms generated gusty and damaging outflow winds, estimated to be in excess of 60 mph. According to a National Weather Service employee, at 1445MST strong winds ripped up a tree with a diameter of 2 feet. The damaged tree was located about 3 miles south of South Mountain Park, along Pecos Road. In addition, numerous branches were torn off of trees in the area.
October 2021HailGila Crossing-Storm chaser reported estimated 1 inch diameter hail while driving on Loop-202.

Every storm 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
Saint Johns Mission1.0 miles26
Komatke1.2 miles26
Co-op Village4.7 miles26
Laveen5.9 miles26
Lone Butte Ranch7.0 miles22
Maricopa Village7.5 miles26
La Montana del Sur8.4 miles26
Wonder Rift9.3 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 Gila CrossingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5246608The 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 5019. 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.