Kom Kug, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Tohono O'odham Nation census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85634. It lies near Coyote Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Caponera Peak quadrangle.

Kom Kug within Pima County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1941 USGS Presumido Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Fresnal quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Presumido Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Caponera Peak quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1994 USGS Sells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Caponera Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Kom Kug between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,846 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
23 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Papago Agency	SAN MIGUEL FIRE
15 August 2013	Natural	128 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	PRESUMIDO
7 July 2013	Natural	1,300 acres	Papago Agency	COYOTE
10 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Papago Agency	BUENOS
30 June 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office	not named
15 May 2015	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Papago Agency	COYOTE CANYON
12 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Papago Agency	SAN MIGUEL
17 February 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Papago Agency	ASOLIDO FIRE

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 Kom Kug: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Tungsten, Copper, Tungsten, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Beach and Little George	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer
Giant Claims	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1951
Les Jimfre Claims	Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Beryllium	Producer	Fluorite, Scheelite
Lesjimfre Claims	Tungsten, Beryllium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Lobos Group	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence
Lobos Group	Uranium, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum, Thorium	Occurrence
Grey Wolf Group	Copper, Tungsten	Unknown
Mineral Chief Group	Copper, Tungsten	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sapano Vaya	1.0 miles	17
Kuit Vaya	4.7 miles	16
Newfield	5.5 miles	17
San Miguel	5.9 miles	17
Hashan Chuchg	6.2 miles	17
Buenos Aires	6.2 miles	17
Choulic	6.8 miles	16
Chutum Vaya	7.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 30809. 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.