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La Paz Valley, Arizona

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Parker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85346. The Survey maps it on the South of Quartzsite quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,027 feet above sea level.

La Paz Valley within La Paz County

Population over time

2 figures

La Paz Valley fell from 699 to 368 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010699
2020368-331 (-47%)

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.

Fires near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of La Paz Valley between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresColorado River DistrictRICHGIRL
16 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado River DistrictMP 169
29 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
22 April 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 January 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColorado River DistrictFRENCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in La Paz 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 Paz Valley: 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Bismuth, Molybdenum, Tellurium, Arsenic. 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
DumortieriteKyaniteProspect
Green GloryGold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth, Molybdenum, Tellurium, ArsenicPast Producer
La Cholla PlacersGold, SilverPast Producer
Yum Yum MineGold, CopperPast Producer
La Cholla PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in La Paz 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
Quartzsite6.0 miles17
Plomosa7.7 miles18
Morgantown11.0 miles25
La Paz (historical)12.1 miles25
Ehrenberg15.1 miles21
Olive City (historical)15.2 miles21
Brenda17.3 miles16
Pioneer20.0 miles16

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 La Paz ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5484304The 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 24147. 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.