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Harshaw, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Patagonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85624. It lies near Hermosa Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Harshaw quadrangle. It stands 4,872 feet above sea level.

Harshaw within Santa Cruz County

On record in Harshaw

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Harshaw between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,841 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony46
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoronado National ForestWILLOW SPRINGS
15 September 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresCoronado National ForestGARDEN II
15 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAFTERNOON
15 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeMIDNIGHT
13 September 2019Natural2.9 acresCoronado National ForestBOG HOLE
4 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeHARSHAW
20 August 2009Naturalunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeALUM
15 August 2020Natural350 acresCoronado National ForestSADDLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Cruz County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 139 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 139 workings within 5 miles of Harshaw: 81 past producers, 27 producers, 14 prospects, 12 occurrences. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Lead. 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
Alta MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1875, 1877, 1952
American MineCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Augusta MineLead, Silver, Manganese, Gold, ZincPast Producer
Basin Mine GroupCopper, Silver, Gold, LeadProducer1882, 1885, 1949
Bender MineManganese, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperProducer1875, 1880, 1959
Bender PropertySilver, Zinc, Lead, ManganesePast Producer
Black Eagle MineManganese, Silver, Lead, Copper, GoldProducer1875, 1918, 1930
Blue Eagle MineCopper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldProducer1897, 1903, 1956
Blue Nose MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer1880, 1884, 1956
Blue Nose MineLead, Silver, Zinc, ManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Santa Cruz County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harshaw in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 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
October 2000FloodHarshaw$5,000Harshaw Road washed out and damaged badly.

Every storm recorded in Santa Cruz 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
Trench Camp1.2 miles22
Patagonia5.6 miles22
Washington Camp5.9 miles22
Duquesne6.7 miles23
Kino Springs9.0 miles19
Lochiel10.1 miles23
Beyerville10.5 miles20
Canelo11.5 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 HarshawAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5673863The 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 29768. 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.