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Indian Ridge Estates, Arizona

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tucson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85715. It stands on Ventana Canyon Wash. The Survey maps it on the Sabino Canyon quadrangle.

Indian Ridge Estates within Pima County

On record in Indian Ridge Estates

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 27 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

1,484 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,484 fires within 5 miles of Indian Ridge Estates between 1993 and 2020, burning about 228 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined1394
Arson/incendiarism31
Natural29
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Departmentnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office153563
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1861728
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1861641

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pima County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Indian Ridge Estates: 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
Acme PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cindrich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Evans Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant 23Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pima County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indian Ridge Estates in 3 storm reports in 2007: 3 flash 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
July 2007Flash FloodIndian Ridge Estates-Three and a half foot rise on Sabino creek in one hour.
July 2007Flash FloodIndian Ridge Estates-Soldier Trail flooding occurred at the Agua Caliente wash.
July 2007Flash FloodIndian Ridge Estates-A four foot rise occurred in 30 minutes in Sabino Canyon at the Sabino Dam stage gauge.

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
Tucson Country Club Estates0.9 miles27
Kingston Knolls Terrace1.8 miles27
Craycroft3.7 miles25
Kleindale3.9 miles26
Rolling Hills Country Club Estates4.0 miles27
Tucson5.0 miles25
Catalina Foothills5.0 miles26
Skyline Bel Aire Estates5.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122590615The 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 37349. 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.