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Hotason 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 85321. The Survey maps it on the Hotason Vo quadrangle.

Hotason 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

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hotason Vo between 1996 and 2015, burning about 78 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
31 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresPhoenix District OfficeREPEAT
8 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeTANKS
3 June 2006Naturalunder an acrePapago AgencyJACOB FIRE
3 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyMP 67
19 May 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyWOLF
20 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePapago AgencyHWY 86 MP 61
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyHWY86 MP63
15 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePapago AgencyHWY86 MP62

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima 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 Hotason Vo: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, 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
Sunset Limited Mine GroupGold, Silver, TungstenProducerGold, Scheelite, Silver
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hotason Vo in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindHotason Vo$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a power pole near Charco.
August 2011LightningHotason Vo$1,000Tohono O'odham Nation Emergency Managers reported a car being struck by lightning on Highway 86 near Indian Route 34.

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
Charco0.3 miles14
Hoa Murk4.0 miles14
Schuchuli4.7 miles14
Sikort Chuapo5.9 miles14
Why7.3 miles14
Kuakatch8.1 miles14
Hickiwan10.9 miles13
Tatai Toak11.8 miles13

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 Q122554071The 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 6043. 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.