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Kingston Knolls Terrace, 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 85710. The Survey maps it on the Tucson East quadrangle.

Kingston Knolls Terrace within Pima County

On record in Kingston Knolls Terrace

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 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

1,653 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,653 fires within 5 miles of Kingston Knolls Terrace between 2002 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 32 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/undetermined1556
Natural37
Arson/incendiarism32
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTucson Fire Department1862482
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 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

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Kingston Knolls Terrace: 4 producers, 3 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
Acme PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cindrich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant 23Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalPast Producer
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence
UnknownGeothermalOccurrence

Every working 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
Indian Ridge Estates1.8 miles27
Craycroft2.2 miles25
Tucson Country Club Estates2.2 miles27
Rolling Hills Country Club Estates2.6 miles27
Vandenberg Village3.5 miles27
Tucson4.3 miles25
Polvo4.4 miles25
Kleindale4.5 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 Q122540470The 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 25240. 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.