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Hilltop, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bowie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85632. It lies near Blumberg Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Rustler Park quadrangle.

Hilltop within Cochise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Hilltop between 1992 and 2020, burning about 532 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
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
7 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestONION CREEK
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
4 August 1998Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestNORTH FORK
22 August 1996Natural1.5 acresChiricahua National MonumentJESSIEJAME
1 August 2020Natural7.4 acresCoronado National ForestSPLIT ROCK
8 July 1996Naturalunder an acreCoronado National ForestWHITETAIL
25 July 1997Naturalunder an acreChiricahua National MonumentRIDGELINE
24 July 2000Natural20 acresCoronado National ForestCANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Hilltop: 38 past producers, 10 prospects, 6 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Tungsten. 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
Ajax MineZinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Bernoudy MineLead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast ProducerReplacement
Chiricahua MineCopper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, TungstenPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Copper, Galena, Lead
Cochise White MarbleMarble, Dimension, Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Cochise White MarbleStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Columbia MineLead, Copper, Zinc, Tungsten, Silver, BismuthPast ProducerContact Metamorphic
Columbia MineZinc, Lead, Silver, Tungsten, Copper, BismuthPast Producer
El Tigre MineLead, Silver, Copper, GoldProducer1937, 1947
Galeyville MinesLead, Silver, Tungsten, CopperPast Producer1878, 1945
HandLead, Silver, Zinc, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Copper, Gold, CadmiumPast Producer1881

Every working recorded in Cochise 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
Galeyville4.4 miles22
Paradise5.2 miles22
Taylor Place6.2 miles18
Portal9.1 miles22
San Simon19.0 miles18
Vanar19.6 miles19
Wheeler Place21.3 miles18
Sunizona21.4 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.

Wikidata item Q141221921The 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 5831. 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.