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Greaterville, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85637. It lies near Granite Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Empire Ranch quadrangle.

Greaterville within Pima County

On record in Greaterville

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

102 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Greaterville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 15,600 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony23
Natural19
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
10 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeEMPIRE GULCH
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeGARDENER
6 July 1994Naturalunder an acreGila District OfficeEMPIRE II
27 July 2000Natural2.5 acresCoronado National ForestFISH
25 July 2014Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestGREATERVILLE
24 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
22 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast DistrictHELVITA
20 July 1994Natural5.0 acresCoronado National ForestW.A.S.P.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 99 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 99 workings within 5 miles of Greaterville: 75 past producers, 9 occurrences, 8 unknowns, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Silver, Gold, Copper. 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
Amado Area Limestone DepositLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Andrada MineSilver, Gold, LeadUnknown
Billey SundayGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Cave Hill DepositMarble, DimensionPast ProducerTravertine
Comstock Mine GroupLead, Copper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1928, 1939
Conglomerate MineLead, Gold, Copper, SilverProducer1909, 1955
East Helvetia DepositCopper Oxide, Copper Sulfide, MolybdenumPast Producer1875, 1959, 1961
Enzenberg MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Hancock MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, GoldPast Producer1885
Hancock MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, GoldPast Producer1885

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greaterville in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGreaterville-A wind gust to 63 mph was recorded at the Empire RAWS.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGreaterville-Thunderstorm outflow winds produced a gust to 67 mph at Empire RAWS.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGreaterville-A thunderstorm wind gust of 67 mph was recorded at Empire RAWS.
July 2017Flash FloodGreaterville-Flash flooding occurred along a portion of Sands Ranch Road in Whetstone causing the road to be temporarily shut down.
September 2015Flash FloodGreaterville-Heavy rain caused Florida Canyon to overflow its banks near the Santa Rita Mountains.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGreaterville-Trained spotter recorded a wind gust of 62 mph at his home near Patagonia Lake.

Every storm recorded in Pima 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
Rosemont Camp4.3 miles21
Rosemont Junction4.9 miles21
Helvetia6.8 miles21
Continental13.4 miles20
Corona de Tucson14.0 miles21
Green Valley14.3 miles20
New Tucson14.9 miles21
East Sahuarita15.5 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 29567. 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.