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Horse Mesa, Arizona

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Tonto National Forest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85545. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horse Mesa Dam quadrangle. It stands 2,067 feet above sea level.

Horse Mesa within Maricopa County

On record in Horse Mesa

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

12 surveys from 25 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Horse Mesa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 964 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined25
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestCORONADO
2 September 1994Natural10 acresTonto National Forestnot named
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
6 August 2010Fireworks2.0 acresTonto National ForestFISH
6 August 1994Natural10 acresTonto National Forestnot named
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreTonto National Forestnot named
25 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTonto National ForestFISH CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Horse Mesa: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
AdventureFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Gatesh Copper ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverUnknown

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
Fish Creek (historical)4.3 miles25
Tortilla Flat4.3 miles24
Fort McDowell17.3 miles26
Desert Vista Estates III18.2 miles21
Silver Spur Village18.3 miles21
Silver Spur Ranch18.5 miles21
Superstition Country Subdivision19.3 miles21
Fountain Hills19.3 miles25

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 Horse MesaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28222269The 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 30147. 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.