Kensington, Arizona

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.

• 1904 USGS Camelback quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Camelback quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Camelsback quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1930 USGS Cave Creek quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1939 USGS Cave Creek quadrangle1:125000, 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 Mesa quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Paradise Valley quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1971 USGS Paradise Valley quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Theodore Roosevelt Lake quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 745 fires within 5 miles of Kensington between 2003 and 2020, burning about 68 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 8 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Montclair Terrace
• Paradise Village North II
• Rancho Santa Fe
• The Covey
• Camelback Estates IV
• Cobblestone Square

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Kensington: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Gold, Silver, Copper, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Maricopa County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 24907. 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.