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La Palma, Arizona

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Coolidge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85128. The Survey maps it on the Coolidge quadrangle.

La Palma within Pinal County

On record in La Palma

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of La Palma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,692 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined104
Debris and open burning19
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEloy Fire Districtnot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined141 acresGila District OfficeCHRISTENSEN
2 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficePILE
17 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeCANAL
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeNOT NAMED
8 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeFLORENCE
27 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeKLECK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pinal County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of La Palma: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Copper, Silica. 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
Southwest Silver Corporation # 1Silver, Copper, SilicaPast Producer
Coolidge Pit & Plant #7Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel
Sand and Gravel QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel

Every working 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
Randolph2.6 miles21
Eleven Mile Corner2.8 miles21
Coolidge6.8 miles21
Borree Corner6.9 miles21
Toltec8.0 miles19
Valley Farms8.3 miles16
Eloy8.8 miles19
Adamsville10.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 6811. 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.