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Kearny, Arizona

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the North Pinal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85137. It stands on Hackberry Wash. The Survey maps it on the Kearny quadrangle. 1,741 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,860 feet above sea level.

Kearny within Pinal County

Population over time

2 figures

Kearny fell from 1,950 to 1,741 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,950
20201,741-209 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Kearny between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,174 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
27 September 1993Smoking10 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
6 August 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
3 August 1992Natural5.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
27 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperior Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
8 July 2013Natural518 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeSHIPMAN
4 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Kearny: 8 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 producers, 3 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Tungsten, Manganese. 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
Alma GroupCopper, Gold, SilverProspect
C and B Group Bywater Mine?Copper, Lead, Zinc, VanadiumProducer
Copper Chief GroupTungsten, Vanadium, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect
Florence Lead-Silver MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Chromium, ZincPast ProducerMimetite, Pyrite, Siderite, Tennantite, Willemite, Wulfenite
Geronimo GroupManganese, Barium-BaritePast ProducerPsilomelane, Pyrolusite
Grayhorse Vanadium PropertyLead, Vanadium, Zinc, MolybdenumOccurrenceDescloizite, Galena, Vanadinite, Wulfenite
Grey HorseLead, Vanadium, MolybdenumPast Producer
Kelvin Sultana Copper Co PropertiesCopper, Iron, Gold, Silica, SilverPast Producer
Kelvin-Sultana MineCopper, Silver, Lead, GoldProducer1903, 1918
Watters Placer ClaimCopper, GoldProspect

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kearny in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 2 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2018Heavy RainKearny$35,000One to two inches of heavy rain in less than one hour collapsed the roof of a dentist's office in Kearny, flooding the office. The heavy rain also allowed 50 mph wind gusts to down a large dead tree. No other damage resulted.
September 2023HailKearny$15,000One inch diameter hail fell in Kearny, denting a number of vehicles.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindKearny$10,000Severe weather in the Kearny area damaged equipment causing power outages to roughly 120 people.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKearny$5,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed two power poles near the school complex in Kearny, leaving nearly 1000 customers without power.
August 2004Heavy RainKearny-Near community of Winkelman, 0.88 inches of rain in 30 minutes made a 30 foot wide wash run 6 feet deep.

Every storm recorded in Pinal 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
Branaman0.4 miles16
Riverside4.2 miles16
Ray Junction4.4 miles16
Kelvin5.0 miles16
Troy6.0 miles16
Hayden Junction6.0 miles16
Sonora8.7 miles16
Ray9.9 miles16

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 KearnyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q592109The 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 6633. 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.