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.
Population over time
2 figuresKearny 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,950 | |
| 2020 | 1,741 | -209 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Ray quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Kearny quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Mesa quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Globe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
52 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 37 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 27 September 1993 | Smoking | 10 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 6 August 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 27 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 8 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Superior Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 8 July 2013 | Natural | 518 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | SHIPMAN |
| 4 July 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 acres | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Group | Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| C and B Group Bywater Mine? | Copper, Lead, Zinc, Vanadium | Producer | ||
| Copper Chief Group | Tungsten, Vanadium, Gold, Lead, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Florence Lead-Silver Mine | Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Chromium, Zinc | Past Producer | Mimetite, Pyrite, Siderite, Tennantite, Willemite, Wulfenite | |
| Geronimo Group | Manganese, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | Psilomelane, Pyrolusite | |
| Grayhorse Vanadium Property | Lead, Vanadium, Zinc, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Descloizite, Galena, Vanadinite, Wulfenite | |
| Grey Horse | Lead, Vanadium, Molybdenum | Past Producer | ||
| Kelvin Sultana Copper Co Properties | Copper, Iron, Gold, Silica, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Kelvin-Sultana Mine | Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold | Producer | 1903, 1918 | |
| Watters Placer Claim | Copper, Gold | Prospect |
Storms near this place
5 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Kearny | $35,000 | One 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 2023 | Hail | Kearny | $15,000 | One inch diameter hail fell in Kearny, denting a number of vehicles. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kearny | $10,000 | Severe weather in the Kearny area damaged equipment causing power outages to roughly 120 people. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kearny | $5,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed two power poles near the school complex in Kearny, leaving nearly 1000 customers without power. |
| August 2004 | Heavy Rain | Kearny | - | Near community of Winkelman, 0.88 inches of rain in 30 minutes made a 30 foot wide wash run 6 feet deep. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branaman | 0.4 miles | 16 | |
| Riverside | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Ray Junction | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Kelvin | 5.0 miles | 16 | |
| Troy | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Hayden Junction | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Sonora | 8.7 miles | 16 | |
| Ray | 9.9 miles | 16 |
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 Kearny | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q592109 | The 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.







