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Green Valley, Arizona

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Arivaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85614. The Survey maps it on the Green Valley quadrangle. 22,616 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,979 feet above sea level.

Green Valley within Pima County

On record in Green Valley

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 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

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Green Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 286 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined85
Smoking6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
19 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire Districtnot named
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire Districtnot named
10 September 1999Natural1.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeDUVAL
8 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire District7628
26 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGreen Valley Fire DistrictNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Green Valley: 7 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, 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
Anamax QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Asbestos ProspectAsbestosOccurrence
Copper Glance MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer1916, 1957
Copper Glance MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Copper King MineZinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, GoldProducer1910, 1942
Copper King MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Copper Queen MineCopper, Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Gold, Molybdenum, ZincPast ProducerChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Marcasite, Sphalerite
Copper Queen MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Molybdenum, Tungsten, ZincPast Producer
Fico PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Marconi MineZinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, CopperProducer1948

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Valley in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 2 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 1993HailGreen Valley-Severe thunderstorms dropped large hail and up to 2.00 inches of rain between Green Valley and Amado.
September 1996HailGreen Valley-no account filed

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
Continental1.0 miles20
Green Valley Pueblo Estates2.8 miles20
Twin Buttes4.9 miles21
Duval5.7 miles20
East Sahuarita7.0 miles20
Sahuarita7.4 miles20
Sahuarita Heights7.5 miles20
Arivaca Junction9.5 miles19

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 Green ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1544683The 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 37327. 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.