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.
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
Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 (571-7) Military ReservationNational Historic Landmark · listed 1992
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Florida Work Station, 27000 South Florida Canyon, Green Valleyfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Patagonia quadrangle1:125000
- 1905 USGS Patagonia quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1926 USGS Helvetia quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sahuarita quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Green Valley quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Fort Huachuca quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 2004 USGS Green Valley quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
104 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 85 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 19 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Green Valley Fire District | not named |
| 16 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Green Valley Fire District | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | DUVAL |
| 8 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 29 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 29 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Green Valley Fire District | 7628 |
| 26 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Green Valley Fire District | NOT NAMED |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anamax Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Asbestos Prospect | Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| Copper Glance Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1916, 1957 | |
| Copper Glance Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Copper King Mine | Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold | Producer | 1910, 1942 | |
| Copper King Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Copper Queen Mine | Copper, Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Gold, Molybdenum, Zinc | Past Producer | Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Marcasite, Sphalerite | |
| Copper Queen Mine | Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Fico Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Marconi Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper | Producer | 1948 |
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Hail | Green Valley | - | Severe thunderstorms dropped large hail and up to 2.00 inches of rain between Green Valley and Amado. |
| September 1996 | Hail | Green Valley | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continental | 1.0 miles | 20 | |
| Green Valley Pueblo Estates | 2.8 miles | 20 | |
| Twin Buttes | 4.9 miles | 21 | |
| Duval | 5.7 miles | 20 | |
| East Sahuarita | 7.0 miles | 20 | |
| Sahuarita | 7.4 miles | 20 | |
| Sahuarita Heights | 7.5 miles | 20 | |
| Arivaca Junction | 9.5 miles | 19 |
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 Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1544683 | The 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.









