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Heritage Highlands, Arizona

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85029. It lies near Moon Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyslope quadrangle.

Heritage Highlands within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

1,737 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,737 fires within 5 miles of Heritage Highlands between 1992 and 2020, burning about 173 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 44 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/undetermined1665
Arson/incendiarism44
Natural18
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
9 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334516
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122600
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-122601
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111669
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101905
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101906
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-101907
8 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePhoenix Fire Department334318

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Heritage Highlands: 16 past producers, 15 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Gold, Stone. 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
Cram's Gold Standard ProspectMercury, Silver, Copper, GoldPast ProducerVein
Crushed Granite Operation MadisonStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MarionGold, Silver, BromineUnknown
Mercury GroupMercury, CopperPast ProducerCinnabar
Rico Mercury-Pat.#4047Mercury, Silver, CopperPast Producer1916
Squaw Peak AreaKyanitePast ProducerMetamorphic
Victoria QuicksilverMercury, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Kruger and Sultan-Pat.#4355 & 1906Gold, Copper, SilverUnknown
Rico GroupMercury, Copper, SilverPast Producer1916
Nita JeanStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Maricopa 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
Ridgegate1.1 miles18
Sunset North1.2 miles18
Thunderbird Valley Number Two1.9 miles18
Colony South2.0 miles18
Canyon Village2.1 miles18
Moon Valley Canyon2.2 miles18
Central Park Village2.2 miles18
Turtle Creek2.3 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122564965The 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 24886. 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.