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Gu Vo, Arizona

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. It lies near Tonoka Valley. The Survey maps it on the Gu Vo quadrangle. It stands 2,146 feet above sea level.

Gu Vo within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Gu Vo between 1995 and 2010, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
19 July 2005Natural1.0 acresPapago AgencyANTONE
30 June 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acrePapago AgencyKERWO02
21 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acrePapago AgencyGUVO
14 June 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresPapago AgencyKERWOVILLA
16 May 2005Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresPapago AgencyGUVO
8 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPapago AgencyDUMP
10 March 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresPapago AgencyCHAIR
12 January 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyMEXICAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gu Vo: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gu Vo in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindGu Vo$50,000no account filed
August 2008Heavy RainGu Vo$5,000Heavy rainfall in the Gu Vo area resulted in the roof damage.

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
Sweetwater7.3 miles8
Kuakatch7.3 miles14
Siovi Shuatak8.2 miles8
Pia Oik8.3 miles8
Stotonyak11.9 miles14
Tatk Kam Vo12.6 miles8
Ahan Owuch12.7 miles14
Hotason Vo12.7 miles14

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 Gu VoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28222047The 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 5412. 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.