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Kelvin, 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 Mineral Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kearny quadrangle. It stands 1,831 feet above sea level.

Kelvin within Pinal County

On record in Kelvin

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 2 records

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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Kelvin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 794 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined30
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
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
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
16 August 2020Natural590 acresGila District OfficeELDER
12 August 1994Smoking4.0 acresArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
10 August 1993Smokingunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSuperior Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 62 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 62 workings within 5 miles of Kelvin: 25 past producers, 15 producers, 13 occurrences, 8 prospects. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum. 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
A,B,C GroupSilver, Aluminum, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite, Manganese, Gold, Silica, Limestone, GeneralProspect
Alice PropertyCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldPast Producer
AlminoTungsten, ManganeseOccurrencePsilomelane
C and B Group Bywater Mine?Copper, Lead, Zinc, VanadiumProducer
Copper Ace GroupCopper, Silica, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Elder Gulch ProspectsLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, MolybdenumOccurrenceVein
Gran CopperCopper, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceChalcocite, Chrysocolla
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grayhorse Vanadium PropertyLead, Vanadium, Zinc, MolybdenumOccurrenceDescloizite, Galena, Vanadinite, Wulfenite
Honey Bee ClaimsCopper, Silver, QuartzOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Pinal County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelvin in 2 storm reports in 2000: 2 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 2000Thunderstorm WindKelvin$20,000Power poles blown down at Kelvin.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindKelvin-Thunderstorm winds blew down power poles in Kelvin.

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
Ray Junction0.6 miles16
Riverside0.9 miles16
Sonora3.9 miles16
Troy4.5 miles16
Kearny5.0 miles16
Ray5.1 miles16
Branaman5.3 miles16
Cochran9.3 miles19

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 KelvinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15235419The 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 24477. 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.